VOLKEL – The airbases in Volkel and Leeuwarden are not yet ready for the reception of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Therefore Defence will carry out work for June 2016, as did minister Monday Hennis know Odiliapeel.
Among others, the so-called safety gear should be adjusted. This is a cable on the ground that the aircraft through a ‘tailhok’ braking. However, the JSF is heavier than the F-16, explains commander André Sturgeon from Volkel airbase. Sturgeon: “We also need to adjust the grid on the JSF. When? It is not yet clear. “
The successor to the F-16 comes in June 2016 to the Netherlands, so that local residents can hear the noise with my own ears. JSF makes according to tests indeed louder than the F-16. In 2021 replaced the first JSF’s F-16s in Volkel.
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