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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
Air force eyes B13.8bn jet deal Cabinet believed to have given go-ahead The cabinet has agreed in principle to back the Royal Thai Air Force’s plan to procure the first four jets in a squadron of new fighters for 13.8 billion baht in the 2023 fiscal year, starting October, a Government House source says. “This resolution was reached at a meeting of the cabinet today [Tuesday] and the proposal was contained in a file that was stamped ‘secret’,” said the source. The new squadron of eight jets will replace the F-16 ADF (Air Defence Fighter) jets that were decommissioned from Wing 1 in Nakhon Ratc…
