Pentagon sources say Polish Ministry of Defense will not lease U.S. F 16's

Defense News, quoting some well-placed sources in the Pentagon, asserts that during a last week's meeting between United States Defense Secretary William Cohen and his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski, Poland decided it would not lease Lockheed Martin F-16 A/B fighter planes from the U.S. as had been planned. The planes would have been leased free of charge, but the cost of training pilots and renovation of the 16 F-16s was estimated at $250 million. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 9).