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...million: Estimated amount paid by the U.S. for each of 21 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets bought this year from Moldova...
WASHINGTON: The price of knowing your enemy has seldom been cheaper. In the military bargain of the century, the Pentagon purchased 21 top-of-the-line MIG-29C fighters from the former Soviet republic of Moldova for a totally crazy $40 million. But what exactly does the U.S. military plan to do with the planes it bought, ostensibly to prevent them being sold to Iran...
...asking price was too good to turn down ? the F-15, the U.S. equivalent of the MIG-29C, goes for around $50 million per plane. ?It really was a steal,? says Thompson. ?I think they?d have bought the MIGs at that price even if Iran hadn?t been interested. They want to see how the engines work, the electronic boxes, the missiles and other subcomponents. I don?t believe they?re even necessarily going to be flown.? Coming in a couple of years: one heck of a garage sale...
SARANDE, Albania: Albania edged closer to all-out civil war as government military jets bombed a southern village and armed civilians clashed with army forces. Reports say a Chinese-made MiG-15 warplane sailed over the port of Livena and dropped up to three bombs on the town, causing an unknown amount of damage. Although the government denies its forces are attacking civilians, crew members of a military jet that defected to southern Italy on Tuesday said they had been given orders to bomb civilian targets. President Sali Barisha has launched a major security operation to quell the unrest, which...
Neither plane entered Cuban airspace, but the Castro government nonetheless authorized its fighter pilots to shoot down the Cessnas. Recently disclosed transcripts of the communications between the MiG pilots and Cuban ground control during the conflict provide conclusive evidence that the Castro government, at the time of the shooting, was aware of the fact that the two planes were unarmed and piloted by civilians...