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Romania Grounds Fighter Jets After Fatal Crash
The Romanian Defence Defence, Mihai Fifor, said on Friday that all the country's old Soviet MiG-21 Lancer fighter jets will be grounded until the end of an investigation, after a MiG-21 Lancer crashed last Sunday at an air rally near Constanta on the Black Sea coast.
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UPDATE Fetesti plane crash: Pilot confirmed dead
Bucharest, July 7 /Agerpres/ - The pilot of the MiG 21 LanceR that crashed Saturday in Fetesti was killed in the accident, the Ministry of National Defence announced.
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Croatia to buy F-16 fighter jets from Israel?
The Croatian military is on the verge of selecting Israel's used F-16 jets to take the place of its dwindling supply of Soviet MiG-21s, just six of which are estimated to be operational. The fleet of 21 60-year-old MiG-21s is in dire need of replacement.
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Croatia likely to buy USD 500 million-worth of Israeli F-16s
The Croatian website index.hr reported this on Friday, citing Israeli outlets the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.
Netanyahu met with Plenkovic in Davos, Switzerland, and according to a statement from his cabinet, they "agreed to move forward on the sale of Israeli F-16s to Croatia according to the terms of the tender."
Vucic: No regional country can match Serbia's military power
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that citizens will on Friday see "a Serbian Army different than the one they've seen before."
Vucic was speaking on Thursday at the military airport in Batajnica - where preparations for tomorrow's military parade "Freedom 2017" are under way.
Newly-acquired MiG-29s to enter operational use in June 2018
BELGRADE - The six MiG-29 jets acquired by the Serbian Armed Forces from Russia will be in operational use from June 2018, the RTS reported on Tuesday.
The planes, which arrived disassembled, will be assembled for unveiling at the Batajnica military airport on October 20, the 73rd anniversary of the WWII liberation of Belgrade.
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Serbia's new MiGs are 28 years old, generation 4+
The six MiG-29s that Russia has donated and delivered to Serbia will enter service in 2018, RTS is reporting.
All six warplanes will be assembled by October 20, Belgrade Liberation Day, and shown for the first time during the celebrations.
After they have been overhauled and modernized, the MiGs will be classified as generation 4+ military jets.
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Tito’s Top Secret Underground Airbase Zeljava (PHOTOS)
Given that Zeljava is a huge complex of underground and overground military facilities, it has been quite a challenge to write an article about it. Therefore, in this article, I will try to present the most important information about the Airbase Zeljava.
India May Get New Generation MiG-35s From Russia
Russia is all set to strike a "big military deal" with India. A top official of Russian fighter jet-manufacturing firm MiG has confirmed the news, saying that they want to supply the latest version of MiG-35s to the South Asian country.
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Italian fighters to temporarily guard Bulgarian airspace
The Bulgarian government gave the green light for four Italian Eurofighter Typhoons to temporarily guard the country's airspace in order to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO, officials said Wednesday, cited by Xinhua.