Argentina buys 24 of Denmark’s ageing F-16 fighter jets

Argentine’s delegation members look at one of the F-16 planes Argentina is buying from Denmark in a hangar at Skrydstrup Airport in Jutland, Denmark (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Argentina’s defence minister signed a deal on Tuesday worth about 2.1 billion kroner (£241 million) to buy 24 of Denmark’s ageing F-16 fighter jets.

Denmark is getting new F-35 aircraft, and the sale of the nearly 40-year-old F-16s that “have been thoroughly maintained and technologically updated” means that Argentina will “become part of the global F-16 family”, said the Danish defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen.