The contract was signed after the transaction was cleared by the U.S. Congress, the ministry said.
The fighters will be modernized and Romanian military to operate them (nine pilots and 75 technicians) will begin training in Portugal. The fighters will be supplied to Romania in 2016 and 2017.
They will be used to secure Romania’s air space and increase NATO’s interoperability, the ministry said.
F-16 aircrafts are produced by U.S. aerospace company General Dynamics.