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Bloomberg has been told by an anonymous Turkish official that Ankara has agreed to foot a $2.5 billion bill to buy the S-400 air defense missile system from Russia.
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Croatia says it will be sending out five requests for proposal next week for its MiG-21 fighter replacement program. Greece has emerge as one of the countries being approached.
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An anonymous source within Malaysia’s Ministry of Defense told Reuters that the country has decided to put plans to buy new fighters on hold and focus on boosting its aerial surveillance capabilities instead.
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The Royal Air Force will stand up No. 120 and 201 Squadrons to operate the Boeing P-8A maritime patrol aircraft by the time the jets arrived home in 2020.
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