March 29, 2010 5:15 PM

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India to get more advanced F-16s than Pakistan's

American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin today assured India that the F-16s being offered to it would be much more advanced than the fighters provided to Pakistan. Lockheed Martin's Vice President-Business Development (India) Orville Prins told a group of visiting Indian journalists in Dallas that the Super Viper is much more advanced in all aspects than the F-16s being given to Pakistan. The assurance comes in the wake of reports that India was concerned over US supplying a new set of F-16s to Pakistan He said, the F-16 Super Viper will be more advanced even than the F-16 Block 60 that were delivered to the UAE recently. The fighter jets being given to Pakistan by the US government are F-16 Block 50/52 aircraft.

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