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Nepal is looking for combat helicopters

Kathmandu, Nepal

The impoverished Himalayan kingdom of Nepal is planning to buy two helicopter gunships with night-vision capabilities for police to tackle a six-year-old revolt by the Maoist guerrillas, Junior Home (interior) Minister Devendra Raj Kandel said. He said also his ministry had also taken out a tender for a Russian-made MI-17 transport helicopter to carry policemen to remote areas where...

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Rome, Italy, 05/28/2002 13:02
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