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AIRCRAFT 10 Su-22 fighter-bombers, 5 MiG-21 fighters, 10 transport helicopters and 40 cargo planes...
...Because the U.S. plane was being tracked by a pair of F-8s - a homegrown version of the Russians' venerable MiG-21 - there was talk that an effort by the crew of the EP-3 to avoid one of the F-8s might have inadvertently led to a collision with the second. But Navy officials both in Washington and at Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii said there was no evidence yet that such a "pinching" movement took place...
...both college dropouts who started software companies in 1977. And they both became multibillionaires. But the rakish Ellison cuts a far different figure from the wonky Gates. Thrice divorced, Ellison has a taste for Armani, fast cars and faster planes--he once tried to buy a $20 million Russian MiG...
...short but fierce set-piece battles that have left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Unlike other African wars, which typically pitch poorly armed rebel groups against each other or against government troops, both Ethiopia and Eritrea have used warplanes, including Sukhoi 27 fighters and MiG-29 interceptors, combat helicopters, multi-barreled rocket launchers and tanks. Military analysts in the region estimate that each country, among the poorest in the world, has spent about $1 million...
...past two years - much of it spent on weapons from Russia and its former Soviet satellites. The Russians, for example, sold Ethiopia eight Sukhoi 27 fighters 18 months ago at a cost of $150 million, and then received a similar amount from Eritrea for a batch of MiG-29 fighters and more for a handful of Sukhoi 25 ground-attack fighters. And the bonanza for the former Soviets didn't end there: Since neither side had the pilots and technical personnel to operate the sophisticated aircraft, they were initially operated and flown by personnel from former Soviet allies before locals...