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Nov. 14, 2003 Israel gets new F-16I fighter/bomber By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN Pilots of the newest F-16I long-range fighter/bomber which is to roll off the assembly line in Texas Friday are itchy to get their hands on the $45 million jet. Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin delivers the first F-16I at its plant here Friday to an Israeli delegation led by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, fresh from his talks in Washington. The rollout ceremony marks the interim phase in this $4.5 billion dollar deal, the largest arms deal ever taken in the history of the state. Lockheed Martin won the tender, beating...

Aerospace Daily: Sukhoi Wins Russia's Fifth-Generation Fighter Tender By Dmitry Pieson/Special to Aerospace Daily 29-Apr-2002 10:26 AM U.S. EDT MOSCOW - Sukhoi Design Bureau won the tender for Russia's fifth-generation fighter April 26 after its bid was approved by the government's commission on military industry. The decision came in a closed meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasianov, and the result was announced by Iliya Klebanov, the minister of industry, science and technology. Sukhoi's team on the program will include MiG and the Yakovlev Design Bureau. MiG had presented its own design for the fighter. According to a Sukhoi statement...