Poland signs deal to buy F-16 jets for $3.5 billion

Saturday, April 19, 2003

DEBLIN, Poland -- Poland on Friday signed a deal to buy 48 U.S.-made F-16 jet fighters for $3.5 billion, the biggest defense contract by a former Soviet bloc country since the end of the Cold War.

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