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БАНГЛАДЕШ КУПИТ У РОССИИ 16 "МИГОВ"
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Правительство Бангладеш одобрило закупку у России 16-ти самолетов МиГ-29. Об этом сообщил во вторник командующий ВВС страны вице-маршал авиации Джамал Уддин Ахмед.
Он отметил, что российская авиатехника хорошо зарекомендовала себя при эксплуатации в Бангладеш.
Командующий сообщил, что в марте прошлого года восемь истребителей МиГ-29 Российской самолетостроительной корпорации "МиГ" уже вошли в состав ВВС страны.
Согласно контракту, в течение всего периода действия гарантийного срока в Бангладеш будет находиться бригада российских технических специалистов, а в случае необходимости ВВС Бангладеш смогут обращаться к помощи российских инструкторов для совершенствования летного и боевого мастерства летчиков.
Ранее летный и технический состав из Бангладеш успешно прошел курс подготовки на истребителях МиГ-29 в одном из учебных центров на территории России.
На вооружении бангладешских ВВС находятся также транспортные вертолеты Ми-17 и самолеты Ан-32.
"Мы полностью удовлетворены российской авиатехникой - все вооружение, которое Бангладеш получает из России, - надежное и обладает отличными боевыми качествами", - отметил Джамал Уддин Ахмед.

(CNN) — Four U.S. citizens and five Russians have been arrested in an ongoing investigation into a Moscow-based Web site that sold and distributed pornographic videotapes featuring children, the U.S. Customs Service announced Monday.The 10-month investigation by Russian officials and agents of the U.S. Customs Service has so far resulted in arrests of the alleged pornographers and child molesters in Moscow, and customers in and near San Francisco, California; New York and Portage, Indiana.
Officials said federal search warrants have also been executed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Tampa, Florida; Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Diego and Santa Barbara, California.


Related investigations are continuing in European countries, including Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, authorities said.
Customs and FBI officials told CNN the tensions between Washington and Moscow over espionage allegations and the expulsion of diplomats has not hindered cooperation between U.S. and Russian law enforcement officials in conducting the investigations.
Customs agents said the Moscow end of the investigation culminated March 2 when Russian authorities arrested Victor Razumov, known as the "Punisher," who allegedly beat and whipped boys as young as 12 years old. The officials said Razumov appeared in two videos depicting forcible sex and painful sadomasochistic activity as a 15-year-old boy cried.
Most of the pornographic videotapes, which cost from $200 to $300 each, were mailed to customers in the United States.
One of the U.S. citizens arrested was Glenn Martikean of Portage, who was indicted last Friday in Gary, Indiana.
Authorities said that while searching Martikean's home in late January, they learned he was in Moscow attempting to have sex with a child. Customs agents arrested him a few days later when he returned to the United States. He is accused of molesting children between the ages of 10 and 14.
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Investigation is underway involving crash of a German "Tornado" fighter-bomber this friday around 21:00 local time. Both pilots were reported dead. According to Associated Press, the crash took place outside the zone assigned for military training.
German pilots were invited to US as a part of Red Flag international exercise that lasts from 3 March through April 13.

WASHINGTON (AP) - An Army reconnaissance plane crashed Monday in Germany, killing two people on board, U.S. officials said.

Details were sketchy, but officials said the plane crashed in a forest near the town of Schwabach, about eight miles southwest of Nuremberg.

``The two pilots died,'' said Hilde Patton, a spokeswoman at the Army's V Corps headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. She said their remains had not yet been recovered from the aircraft.

Patton said the aircraft was an RC-12, a twin-propeller plane that operates the Guardrail electronic intelligence collection system. It is used to detect, identify and precisely locate potentially hostile sources of communications, radars and other electronic signals.

Patton said the RC-12 was on a training flight from an Army airfield at Wiesbaden. It was assigned to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade at Wiesbaden.

The accident happened about 4 p.m. local time. Patton said there was no indication of what caused the crash. German and American authorities are investigating. She said she did not know whether there had been any communication from the pilot indicating a mechanical or other problem.

LONDON (Reuters) - Two U.S. F-15 fighters went missing on a low-flying training mission over the Scottish Highlands on Monday and rescue workers were increasingly pessimistic after reports of an explosion. "As each hour and minute goes by, we are profoundly concerned about their fate," Royal Air Force spokesman Michael Mulford told Reuters after the fighters were reported overdue.

"In search and rescue, one never says never but at this point it is difficult to be anything but pessimistic," he said.

Contact was lost on both radar and radio from the fighters, on a training flight from their Lakenheath base in England.

"Someone has reported an explosion in the Cairngorms. We now have two Nimrod aircraft, three helicopters, two RAF mountain rescue teams and several civilian teams all searching," the spokesman said.

He said there were no reports of distress beacons. "This is something of a mystery. We are very concerned about the fate of these two pilots as there is simply no trace," Mulford added.

Mulford told Reuters: "Two F15 fighter-bombers left Lakenheath at 1230 heading towards Scotland on a low-fly exercise with enough fuel for three hours.

"At 1315, they were on a routine switch between two military air traffic control points, one at RAF Leuchars, the other at RAF Lossiemouth. During the call, radar and radio contact was lost so a major search was mounted.

"Subsequently someone rang up and said they had heard an explosion in the area and timed it at 1315."


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First Tu-214 Completed at Kazan Aircraft Plant


According to the report published at Izvestiya Newspaper, the Kazan Aircraft
Production Association has recently completed construction of its first
Tupolev-214 airliner.

TU-214 is a medium-range passenger aircraft, which design and performance match
all strict international standards. This particular airframe has a long record
of setbacks and troubles. Aeroflot, which initially ordered this aircraft,
refused to buy it, advsing that the airline was changing its plans in favour of
Boeing-made planes.

The plant, therefore, had to look for customers itself. As expected, the first
Tupolev-214 would shortly join airfleet of Dalavia, the Russian Far East-based
airline. The plane was built following the agreement between the Khabarovsk
Territory Administration and Financial Leasing Company, the later would lease
this airframe to Dalavia.

Another airframe for Dalavia will be built already in the first half of this
year, said Vladimir Anyutov, the plant`s deputy director general.

/Izvestiya/
AVIA RU Network

Monday March 26 12:04 PM ET
2 Die in U.S. Army Plane Crash


WASHINGTON (AP) - An Army reconnaissance plane crashed Monday in Germany, killing two people on board, U.S. officials said.

Details were sketchy, but officials said the plane crashed on approach to Nuremberg airport.

Two Pentagon (news - web sites) officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the aircraft was an RC-12, a twin-propeller plane that operates the Guardrail electronic intelligence collection system. It is used to detect, identify and precisely locate potentially hostile sources of communications, radars and other electronic signals.

German state police said the plane crashed about seven miles east of Nuremberg.

Американские истребители совершили вынужденную посадку в горах Шотландии


В понедельник в Шотландии два истребителя ВВС США, проводивших учения на низких высотах, сообщили о вынужденной посадке. Группа спасателей была отправлена на поиски. Истребители покинули базу Лейкенхеф и находились предположительно над Бреймаром, когда поступил сигнал о помощи. Об этом сообщила полиция Грампиана. //«Газета.Ru»
Monday March 26 11:58 AM ET
U.S. Jets Missing Over Scotland


LONDON (AP) - Two U.S. F-15 fighter jets were reported missing Monday over a Scottish mountain range, the U.S. Air Force said.

Meanwhile, an Army reconnaissance plane crashed Monday in Germany, killing two people on board, U.S. officials said. Details were sketchy, but officials said the plane crashed on approach to Nuremberg airport.

The Pentagon (news - web sites) confirmed that the two F-15C planes were more than an hour overdue to return to Lakenheath after a routine trianing mission over northern Scotland. Air Force spokewoman Capt. Almarah Belk said a search and rescue mission had been launched from RAF Kinloss, a British air base.

The aircraft lost contact with ground control at Lakenheath, 75 miles northeast of London, when they were over the Cairngorm Mountains in the Scottish Highlands, Lakenheath spokeswoman Maj. Stacee Bako said.

The F-15C models involved carry only a pilot, Bako said.

A Royal Air Force spokeswoman said two RAF Nimrod reconnaissance planes and three Sea King helicopters from Scottish bases were searching the area, helped by two RAF mountain rescue teams on the ground.

Grampian police in Aberdeen said they had no reports of any planes coming down.

The Royal Air Force spokeswoman said the planes left Lakenheath at around 12.30 p.m. (6:30 a.m. EST) for a three-hour sortie over the Scottish Highlands.

They last made radio contact abou…

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