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By Micah Halpern
Saturday May 15, 2010 I've Been Thinking: Syria is enormously pleased with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's trip to the Middle East. And why shouldn't they be? Russia promised to supply Syria with a slew of MiG-29's and a battery of anti-aircraft weapons. Of course Syria is elated, any fighter plane is a quantum improvement for the antiquated Syrian air-force. The MiG - 29 is hardly the best plane in the Russian arsenal. Russia has not updated the technology since the 1980's and last year they grounded all MiG - 29's. They are now selling them off at the good deal of $25-29 million a piece. That's a very good price for a flawed weapon. The MiG -31 and MiG -27 have been updated and upgraded. FYI MiG stands for Mikoyan - Gurevich the names of the two men who created the company. Read my new book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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