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...cost of $400 million; Saudi Arabia will be allowed to buy 60 of one of the world's most sophisticated fighters, the F-15, at a cost of $2.5 billion, to replace its aging fleet of British Lightning jets; and Israel will be permitted to buy 15 F-15s (in addition to 25 currently being delivered), as well as 75 of the smaller but still very advanced F-16 (total cost: $1.9 billion...
...scrupulously, and a high Administration official insists, "These numbers are not subject to a lot of haggling." Washington also maintains that the sales would not alter the basic military balance in the region. But, as critics of the decision's timing point out, since deliveries of the F-15s and F-16s are nearly four years away, the announcement could have been delayed until progress had been made in resumed talks between Egypt and Israel...
...today, including the Soviet Union's MiG-25 Foxbat, is deadlier than the twin-engine, $16 million F-15 that the Carter Administration wants to sell to Israel and Saudi Arabia. "It's beautiful," says Brigadier General John T. Chain Jr., who has been flying F-15s since they became operational three years ago. "It's the-first fighter aircraft that has all the capabilities a pilot wants: high thrust, tight turning, great visibility and every switch in the right place in a cockpit designed for the pilot...
...fighter-bomber that the White House proposes to sell to Egypt is the current version of a design that is now 23 years old and has no advantages over the F-15s and F-16s except price (as little as $5 million). But the planes are already the work horses of the Royal Saudi Air Force and could be useful to Egypt at least for defensive purposes. Since they carry two 20mm electric machine guns and 7,000 Ibs. of bombs, they can also be used effectively to support ground troops. Egyptian pilots who trained in Soviet aircraft with Russian...
...aging MiGs supplied to him before Egypt's break with Moscow in 1972. "Sadat made a very good case for arms," said Washington's Senator Henry Jackson, who is known as one of Israel's best friends in Washington. Although Sadat had asked for sophisticated F-15s and F-16s, the prospect was that Carter would recommend sale of 50 to 60 of the more modest F-5E fighter planes to Egypt...