By Eliza Popova
The new customers are Bahrain, Bulgaria, Jordan, Slovakia and Taiwan. At the peak of production in 1987, Generaly Dynamics Fort Wark (now part of Lockheed Martin) produced 286 F-16 aircraft. Then they began to produce in South Korea and Turkey. A total of 4599 fighters have been made in 50 years. In 2017, production was rolled up in Fort Flow, but the order continued to arrive. Thus appeared a plant in Greenville with the name H16. Previously, it was used to serve C-130 transporters.
Since 2019, the plant has been fully operational. Now Lockheed Martin has an order on 140 aircraft. Monthly, the plant in Greenvil produces 4 F-16 or 48 aircraft a year. Thus, the company has already reached the target for 2025. All orders will take about 2. 5 years. 700 workers were involved in the production of F-16 aircraft, but in 2019 there were only 25. The Lockheed Martin supply chain is very wide: we recall that the analyst reported why the Ukrainian F-16 is better based in NATO.
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