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Many US Air Force F-15s facing early retirement

Washington, USA - After the technical defection cases

Last November, the US Air Force grounded its entire fleet of air-superiority F-15 fighter aircraft, around 700 planes in total, because one of them had crashed to the ground during an exercise in Missouri, because of a structural fatigue (see AVIONEWS). Of these, the more modern F-15E version, employed in the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, were rapidly put in service again, the other 440 older...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1084301
Rome, Italy, 01/09/2008 14:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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