Slovaks choice up F-16

Slovaks will acquisition 14 F-16C/D Block 70 in 2018 for the equivalent of US$1.8 billion. The first aircraft was to be delivered to them in 2022. This failed due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its breach of the component supply chain, but besides the hold in moving the F-16 production line from distant Worth to Greenville. It was a problem that the Slovak MiGów-29 squadron after the withdrawal of Russian method support in 2022 was grounded and in 2023 passed on to the fighting Ukraine. Slovakia was so deprived of its squadron of jet fighters and its airspace began to be cared for by allies: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.