
The State Department has approved a $259 million deal with Turkey covering avionics upgrades for its current fleet of F-16 fighter jets. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress on Monday of the new foreign military sale. The new FMS case arrives as a separate $20 billion weapons deal with Turkey, that would include deliveries of new Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built F-16s, has stalled in Congress. Lawmakers have previously pressed the Biden administration to detail concrete steps to ensure Turkey…