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USA: pressures on Israel in order to make it renounce to upgrade the Venezuelan F-16s

Tel Aviv, Israel - Tension between the United States and Venezuela makes this Israeli industrial support possibility a problem for Washington

Israel well knows the F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of the main weapon systems of its defensive organization, and its defence industry takes advantage of good companies competent for avionics, defence electronics and airborne weapons. Venezuela is aware of it and thought to ask Tel Aviv for an upgrade for its Viper fighters fleet, an upgrade that the South American state could not expect to be granted...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 129476
Rome, Italy, 10/21/2005 17:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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