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Russian Air Force will buy 1,500 new airplanes and helicopters

Moscow, Russia - And will modernize 400. It will increase sensibly, moreover, the high-precision weaponry. By 2020

As reported today by the news agency "RIA Novosti", Lieutenant General Igor Sadofyev has announced that the Russian Air Force plans "To acquire and modernize about 2,000 aircraft and helicopters by 2020, including more than 1,500 aircraft and about 400 modernized". A priority for the Country, Sadofyev explained to the local press, is the modernization and the related life-extension of the 80% of...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1123448
Rome, Italy, 12/02/2010 13:50
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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