Airbus Defence & Space has signed a memorandum of understanding with Portuguese manufacturers to develop a Eurofighter industrial proposition for the country's Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter replacement programme.
A lot of countries don’t have comically large defense budgets. Portugal is one of those countries. They’re not “poor” per se in terms of GDP, but they’re also not rolling in silly amounts of cash. Both the EF2000 and JAS39 would be great choices.
Yeah, seems like a weird half step up to go from F16 to Typhoon. I assume they’re old F16s.
A lot of countries don’t have comically large defense budgets. Portugal is one of those countries. They’re not “poor” per se in terms of GDP, but they’re also not rolling in silly amounts of cash. Both the EF2000 and JAS39 would be great choices.
F16s aren’t exactly super expensive either.
But they are tied into the US procurement pipeline quite fundamentally