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Bulgaria: Lockheed Martin promotes the F-16 to replace the Mig-29

Sofia, Bulgaria - Competing with the Boeing F/A-18 and the SAAB/BAe Gripen

Despite Bulgaria already renounced in the past to purchase the F-16 multirole light fighters for the replacement of the combat airplanes fleet based on Russian-made aircraft, Lockheed Martin has decided to compete anyway in a tender for the provision of new military planes facing SAAB/Bae (which promote the JAS-39 Gripen) and Boeing (which offers the F/A-18 Hornet). The F-16 is so still ready to play...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 126052
Rome, Italy, 09/02/2005 14:24
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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