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Sources suggest that Tehran aims to rapidly compensate for losses sustained during the June escalation with Israel. Over the ...
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Inside The Middle East's Stealth-Fighter Fever. When the October War of 1973 erupted, Israel held a clear advantage over ...
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Flying coffins

IT takes courage to fly, whether as a pilot (or as a passenger) in a metal coffin, assembled, as the astronaut Alan Shepherd put it, “from hundreds of parts supplied by the lowest bidder”.