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Syria Buys Russia MiG -29
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.
The MiG - 29 is simply an old fighting machine.

FYI MiG stands for Mikoyan - Gurevich the names of the two men who created the company.

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