US acquisition of 21 MiG-29s in the news! US forced Moldova to sell MiG-29s Moscow: Moldova's former president on Monday said the US had pressed the former Soviet republic into selling its combat aircraft cheaply to Washington and dismissed charges that a former minister had defrauded the state. Petru Lucinschi said after testifying at the trial of former defence minister Valery Pasat that the $40-million sale of 21 fighter aircraft to the US in 1997 had been clinched to meet US concerns that the aircraft would have ended up in Iran. Pasat, now a senior manager at Russia's electricity giant Unified Energy Systems, is on trial on charges of abuse of power and fraud by selling the MiG-29s too cheaply, causing a loss of $55 million to the state. Lucinschi, in office when the deal was signed, said Moldova received an offer of $93 million for the aircraft, but came under pressure to sell to Washington. "We did receive an offer from a South Korean firm ready to pay $93 million,
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DHC-6s N512AR and N94AR have flown the pond; N512AR has actually flown halfway round the world already! HHR-ABQ-GJT-GRB-BGR-Reykjavik-Mildenhall UK. And now they've landed at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire. Spooky! A friend of a friend says that they are going to be here for around 2 weeks doing 'terrain penetrating radar trials' over the Salisbury Plain Danger Areas. I wonder what this is all about?
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I can't upload my video of the 4 fastmovers flying out of Groom due technical reasons or perhaps incompetence on my part. If anyone if really into analysing dots then let me know and I'll send you a DVD. But we really, really think it's a simple case of MiG-29 with F-16 chase plus Su-27 (ish) plus F-16 chase.