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...fighter planes, worth $10 billion - the single biggest tender in the world in the past 15 years. Six companies' jets are in the running: Boeing's F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, Dassault Aviation's Rafale, Lockheed Martin's F-16, Russia's MiG-35, Saab's JAS 39 Gripen and the Eurofighter Typhoon from EADS, a six-nation European consortium. All of them sent teams of delegates to Defexpo. They hovered around their booths, giving impromptu presentations over free cappuccino to bureaucrats, army officers and local journalists. The bid is already in its final stages - Indian air force pilots are testing...
Winging its way across the dark Skagerrak, the big Swedish airliner Gripen was nearing home shores on its run from Aberdeen to Stockholm...
...rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass, and another. For ten nightmarish minutes the unequal struggle went on. The Gripen almost made land, crashed instead on rocks just off the coast...
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