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World events from the year The Netherlands last received F-16s:

• Yugoslav Federation broken up (Jan. 15).
• US recognizes three former Yugoslav republics (April 7).
• UN expels Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia (Sept. 22).
• Bush and Yeltsin proclaim a formal end to the Cold War (Feb. 1).
• US lifts trade sanctions against China (Feb. 21).
• General Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, convicted in US court (April 9) and sentenced to 40 years on drug charges (July 10).
• Russian Parliament approves START treaty (Nov. 4).
• US forces leave Philippines, ending nearly a century of American military presence (Nov. 24).
• Czechoslovak Parliament approves separation into two nations (Nov. 25). Background: Czech Republic and Slovakia
• UN approves US-led force to guard food for Somalia (Dec. 3).
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed (Dec. 17).

Article from June 2022: No 312 Squadron: Inside the last Dutch F-16 unit
With old age comes discomfort and that certainly applies to fighter aircraft, which are flown to the edge of their flight envelopes on a near-daily basis from the day they enter operational service to the day they are retired. The F-16AM/BM (MLU) is no exception and serviceability is therefore becoming harder to predict.
“A few weeks before a readiness exercise at the beginning of November, we had 24 aircraft available. That is unprecedented. At the start of the exercise, that number had been reduced to 14. There were 11 a month after the exercise and only four a few days later,” Vreeburg recalled.
Technical complaints with the F-16 vary wildly.