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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Croatia nears receipt of delayed MiG-21s from Ukraine

MiG-21bisCroatia's defence ministry says the current turmoil in Ukraine “has nothing to do” with a roughly five-month delay in returning its Mikoyan MiG-21bisD fighters and UMD-model trainers that are being overhauled in Odessa, instead citing “technical problems”.

These include issues with integrating new navigation and communication equipment from Czech supplier CLS, along with “digital to analogue signal conversion”.

Being performed under a €13.9 million ($19.3 million) deal forged through Ukraine's Ukrspecexport organisation, the project includes the overhaul of the seven aircraft and the provision of five additional single-seat examples, which are being refurbished and equipped to Croatian air force specifications.

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2 comments:

  1. The Real Zen Master20/3/14 01:42

    So what do they want instead ?

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  2. sportexit30/4/14 22:08

    They wish to follow the Swedish example and let other nations fight for them.

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