Word: mig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undaunted, Aldrin and ShareSpace have come up with a plan to raise the capital they need. For $10 or so, contestants could enter a sweepstakes qualifying them to win a range of space-related prizes, including a ride aboard a zero-gravity training plane or a trip in a MiG-25 to the edge of space. Any money left over would be used for the group's advocacy and R.-and-D. mission...
...such weapons, and the Pentagon has withdrawn forces from southern Florida because it no longer considers the island a military threat. But the report will have to concede that FIDEL CASTRO does have a large pharmaceutical industry that could produce biological agents. He also possesses six Russian MiG-29 jets, which Moscow delivered during the cold war, that are equipped to carry such theoretical weaponry. Senior Pentagon officers, who hope Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba this week will help ease tensions, privately favor normalizing relations with Havana. They fear that the report will only throw red meat...
...some cooperative terrorists, it might not be impossible. Iraq has also been tinkering with other methods. Before the Gulf War it had several hundred Italian-made pesticide dispensers fitted with spray nozzles for spitting out bioweapons in droplet size. In 1990 the Iraqis flight-tested a remote-controlled MiG-21 fighter mounted with a 2,200-liter belly tank and sprayer...
...million: Estimated amount paid by the U.S. for each of 21 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets bought this year from Moldova...
...million: Amount the U.S. spent this year on each of six new F-15 fighter jets (the closest thing to a MiG...