New MiG for Farnborough
NZPA-Reuter Moscow The Communist Party newspaper, “Pravda” yesterday unveiled to the Soviet public the MiG-29 fighter, one of the most advanced combat aircraft in the Soviet arsenal.
“Pravda” printed a photograph of the needlenosed twin-jet fighter and informed the Soviet public that the aircraft, known to N.A.T.O. air forces as the Fulcrum, would be presented at Britain’s Farnborough air show early next month in the first appearance at such an
event by a Soviet military aircraft. It described the MiG--29 as a fourth-generation military jet developed to match the US F-16 Falcon advanced fighter, adding it was superior to the F-16 in a number of
respects. “Pravda” said two MiG-295, said by Western defence analysts to have been in squadron use since 1985, would be flown to Britain by Soviet test pilots. It said news of the arrival of the fighters was causing a sensation in the West.
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