Instalments for American-produced F-16 jets to be adjusted

The Defence Ministry has agreed with its partners in the USA on adjusting Slovakia's instalments for the F-16 jets that it has purchased, TASR learnt from ministry spokeswoman Martina Kovaľ Kakaščíková on Wednesday. Slovakia has already paid $575.3 million this year. It will have to pay $150 million next year, $285 million in 2022, $185 million in 2023, $30 million in 2024 and $10.68 million in 2025. Neither the deadlines for supplying the jets nor those for paying the remaining instalments have changed. The purchase contract for fourteen American-produced F-16 C/D Block 70 jets was signed in 2018 by former defence minister for the Slovak National Party (SNS) Peter Gajdos. The first four jets should be supplied to Slovakia in 2022. The remaining ten should follow in 2023.