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Conference turris::scandia

Title:	All about Scandinavia

Moderator:	TLE::SAVAGE

Created:	Wed Dec 11 1985
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	603
Total number of notes:	4325

118.0. "USSR jets displayed in Finland" by HELIX::NIEMI () Wed Jul 02 1986 14:08

Associated Press Wed 02-JUL-1986 01:22             Soviet Planes

  HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Six MiG-29 planes, examples of the
latest generation of Soviet jetfighters, arrived at an airport in
eastern Finland to go on display for the first time in the West.
   The MiG-29s, codenamed ``Fulcrum'' in the West, arrived at the
Rissala airport on Tuesday on a four-day official visit, Finnish
Army headquarters said.
   Previously, the MiG-29 had been seen only in drawings in the West.
   Military experts say the plane is capable of speeds of up to
1,500 mph, and that it is capable of intercepting ``low flying
targets'' such as cruise missiles. They compare it to the U.S. F-16
fighter.
   In 1982 the Soviets also chose Rissala to unveiled the MiG-23 jet
fighter. Finland later purchased several MiG-23s to fill out its two
squadrons of Swedish-made Draken fighters.

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118.1 Not MiG 23's HSK03::PEURA Pekka Peura * CSC * Helsinki Mon Jul 07 1986 17:05 15

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118.1	Not MiG 23's	HSK03::PEURA	Pekka Peura * CSC * Helsinki	`Mon Jul 07 1986 17:05`	15
	re: -1 A small error in the AP news. >In 1982 the Soviets also chose Rissala to unveiled the MiG-23 jet >fighter. Finland later purchased several MiG-23s to fill out its two >squadrons of Swedish-made Draken fighters. The Finnish Air Force didn't by any MIG-23's in 1982 (nor later). We do have older MIG 21's and MIG 21bis. (Our trade with the soviet is bilateral, so if we sell them ships etc. we will have to buy something from them. One of the few of their products with top quality is arms, so our Army has quite a lot of soviet made equipment).

    re: -1
    
    A small error in the AP news.
    
>In 1982 the Soviets also chose Rissala to unveiled the MiG-23 jet
>fighter. Finland later purchased several MiG-23s to fill out its two
>squadrons of Swedish-made Draken fighters.

 
    The Finnish Air Force didn't by any MIG-23's in 1982 (nor later).
    We do have older MIG 21's and MIG 21bis. (Our trade with the soviet
    is bilateral, so if we sell them ships etc. we will have to buy
    something from them. One of the few of their products with top quality
    is arms, so our Army has quite a lot of soviet made equipment).