Eritrea has received a batch of MiG-29 fighters, possibly from Ukraine, and quantities of small arms.
Anyway James is planning something far grander for his next piece: He just bought a 1962 MiG-17.
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Pentagon sources say a U.S. F-16 shot down a Yugoslav MiG-29 on Monday night near the border between Bosnia and Serbia.
As well as Russian MiG-35s, American F-16 and F-18s, the Eurofighter and the Swedish Gripen are also tendering for the contract.
Also last year, China's JF-17s and Russia's MiG-29s competed in a tender from Myanmar, which eventually chose the Russians, but paid less than they wanted.
Both Syria and Jordan said the plane was a Russian-made MiG-21.
At the same time, it will phase out the aging MiG-21 and MiG-27 fighter jets as well as the Mi-8 helicopters and Avro turboprop transport aircraft.
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Five years ago, a Cuban airforce defector in a MIG-29 fighter aircraft -- flying undetected until outside Key West, Florida -- confirmed that he had trained to attack the Turkey Point nuclear power facility in South Florida.
India can arm two types of aircraft to do this: the MiG-27 Flogger, which was made by the old Soviet Union, and the Jaguar, which was used in a nuclear role by the British and French air forces.
Recently, Syria has attempted to get some of its Mi-24 attack helicopters refurbished by Russia -- a move which prompted an international outcry -- and has ordered Yak-130 advanced training jets and MiG-29 fighter jets that have yet to be delivered.
The sources say the MiG came up to challenge the F-16 and was shot down.
In Hargeisa, where 50, 000 died during the war of re-independence, a Somali MiG jet used to bomb the city sits atop a poignant memorial.
It was blamed on a mid-air collision with a Libyan MiG 23 fighter jet.
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