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American and Iraqi fighter aircraft have risked a duel on Saudi Arabia skies

Prince Sultan, Saudi Arabia – An Iraqi Mig-25 has crossed Saudi aerial space frontier

"Judiciously, we has backtracked when we have framed it on the radar... we was at two minutes to fire with an air-to-air missile in its direction". This the declaration, released today by one of the American pilots who, last Thursday, on board of a jet fighter has been nearly to fire against an Iraqi Mig-25 that had crossed the Saudi Arabia air space. According to some experts, it indicates that the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 41431
Rome, Italy, 03/03/2003 17:06
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