Procurement: July 31, 2000

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The US has refused to compensate Taiwan for any of the four F-16s which have crashed. The first three were not recovered; the fourth was found to have a defective engine. The 150 fighters were sold on a "letter of offer and acceptance" which had no guarantee or compensation clauses.--Stephen V Cole

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