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Indonesia still bargaining with Russia over the price of 8 Su-35s

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Indonesia still wishes to buy eight Sukhoi Su-35 fighters from Russia and is negotiating with Moscow on the prices, Minister of Defense Ryamizard Ryacudu disclosed.

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By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (Sukhoi Su-35S) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Boeing started installing APG-82 AESAs on Seymour Johnson’s F-15Es

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Since September, Boeing engineers have been busy at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, swapping the old APG-70 radars on the F-15Es there and replacing them with the state-of-the-art APG-82 AESA radar.

An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 336th Fighter Squadron sits in a hanger while members of the Radar Modernization Program Eagle modernization program team begin removing panels, Oct. 3, 2016, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. More than 90 jets at Seymour Johnson AFB will receive the radar modifications, projected to be completed in seven to nine years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Shawna L. Keyes)
An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 336th Fighter Squadron sits in a hanger while members of the Radar Modernization Program Eagle modernization program team begin removing panels, Oct. 3, 2016, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. More than 90 jets at Seymour Johnson AFB will receive the radar modifications, projected to be completed in seven to nine years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Shawna L. Keyes)

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