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Old 05-19-2023, 08:59 PM
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Norway only has 28 (retired) F-16 left, IIRC. They sold 12 to Draken for that company's DACT flights, and Romania bought 32 last year.

The Dutch are in the process of retiring their last 68 F-16 and have said they're open to providing aircraft to Ukraine.

Belgium is starting to retire their F-16s this summer, although that process will take until 2028 and they're not expected to sell them on because the airframes are extremely close to their maximum service lives.

The Danes were going to retire their F-16s next year, but have extended their service life through 2027.

I don't know of anyone else who's in the middle of retiring their F-16. Many (if not most) of the countries that have them don't have anything newer to serve as a replacement. Particularly for countries that aren't geographically close to the conflict, I have a hard time seeing them weakening their own defenses to bolster Ukraine without assured replacement of the provided aircraft.
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