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12/08/2012
A former fighter pilot, a number cruncher, an air force commander and a skeptic will oversee Ottawa’s revived search for a new fighter jet as it pulls back from plans to buy the F-35.
Details of the government’s new search will be unveiled next week, likely Monday or Tuesday, along with a dramatically higher price tag if Ottawa went ahead with its purchase of 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 jets.
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12/08/2012
The Russian Air Force is not training sufficient numbers of pilots and other specialists, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday. "The quantity of pilots and other specialists being trained for the air force is insufficient," Shoigu said, adding he would pay special attention to the issue. "We need to take measures to solve this," he said. "I want to stress that optimizing our military training system is one of the Defense Ministry's main tasks."
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