SU-27 fighter bombers from Russia have already arrived in Ethiopia, along with container-loads of weapons through Djibouti.
That would mean questioning the whole logic of manpower-intensive weapons systems such as fighter-bombers.
It has purchased 300 to 400 Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and Su-30 fighter-bombers, plus Russian A-50 AWACS and anti-air and ground attack missiles.
It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
The fact remains that all these aircraft-building programmes are backed by powerful lobbies in the armed forces, as well as by legislators whose districts contain the factories which make the fighter-bombers.
However toughly President Clinton may have talked to Binyamin Netanyahu this week, it escaped no Arab's notice that the Israeli prime minister's visit coincided with the delivery of long-range American fighter-bombers to Israel.
By the third week of April, Portland, Exmouth, Bexhill, Folkestone, Hastings, Lydd, Dungeness, Cowes and Newhaven had all suffered "tip-and-run" raids - so-called because the fast fighter-bombers randomly "tipped" their bombs and "ran" for it.
That includes fighter jets and bombers spread out across air bases in the Middle East and nearby aircraft carriers.
The former component fitter on fighter planes and bombers says he now suffers from illnesses including respiratory problems, kidney defects, bowel conditions and painful joints.
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This approach would allow defense planners to argue that the classic MRC force of six to seven Army divisions, 10 Air Force fighter wings, 100 heavy bombers and four to five carriers was still needed to defend the Persian Gulf, but was excessive for a second MRC even in the region where it was most likely to occur.
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The Rad Lab had been developing a radar device for fighter aircraft that would allow pilots to identify distant German bombers, and was hiring hundreds of scientists every few months.
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