From rental cars to fighter jets: The gurus also decided last week to commit capital to Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ).
Former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi may have been "a middleman" for Swedish company Saab-Scania when it was trying to sell fighter aircraft to Delhi in the 1970s, allege cables released by Wikileaks.
EADS, which was then bidding to sell fighter-aircraft to South Africa.
By agreeing to open Algerian airspace to French fighter jets on their way to Mali, and to close its southern border, Algiers has unwillingly relapsed into an old war it knows only too well.
His voluntary return to action at an age when he was too old to fly fighter planes and too fat to squeeze into the cockpit without difficulty marked his own escape from his planet B-612.
With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.
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Warren also hopes to have Khan fighting again in September but whether he continues to promote the fighter remains to be seen.
Russia is reported to be selling fighter jets to the Sudanese government.
"It's going to take a special, special fighter to take it from me and no disrespect but Brian Magee isn't that fighter, " said Oakey.
Critics argue that, while it is true some of the high performance technologies essential to advanced fighter aircraft would not directly translate, the skills and industrial capabilities required to produce such specialized systems, however, could have considerable applicability to civil aircraft production.
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The SFO's inquiry is thought to have angered Saudi Arabia, to the point where there was a risk that BAE could lose a contract to sell the new Typhoon fighter to Riyadh.
Lockheed Martin has similarly lucrative deals to sell its F-16 fighter to the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
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British Aerospace is one company making some headway towards this with the method it uses to design fighter aircraft.
At Burning Man, perhaps in an ode to his fighter-pilot days, he can be seen in Mad Max industrial-style leather outfits with leather goggles.
It's a new radar setup that turns the helicopter into an all-seeing eye, capable of surveying the 360-degree space around it in order to direct fighter planes in combat.
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Russia is currently bidding to supply more than 120 fighter planes to Delhi.
"He used to be a fighter, MMA fighter, " Taramov said, in a reference to mixed martial arts.
When war broke out in 1939, Freeborn temporarily gave up his fledgling career to train as a fighter pilot, only to almost lose his life to Asian flu and haemophilia.
Condit was initially due to face Rory MacDonald but the Montreal fighter had to pull out with a neck injury.
The onus is on the Clinton administration to say precisely which fighter aircraft, helicopters or ships will have to be sacrificed in order to free money for electronics or information systems that are really needed.
He drove the fighter to train harder than ever by running ahead of the pack.
From Final Fantasy VII and Street Fighter to Kingdom Hearts, Grandia and Chrono Trigger, I was transfixed.
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Boeing and General Dynamics contend the government refused to share stealth technology needed to build the fighter plane.
He was the first fighter to win world titles in eight weight classes, but none of that mattered Saturday.
What the sport does promote is discipline, sportsmanship and hard work, all elements necessary for a fighter to be successful here.
Analysts say it is likely to trigger more orders, including from South Korea, which is also seeking to replace its fighter fleet.
Brazil and Russia to build jet fighter and satellite launch vehicles.
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