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Old 15th Aug 2017, 17:40
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ANALYSIS: RAF Typhoons impress on Romanian air policing duty
On Flight Global:-

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Through a shimmering heat haze, the pilots of two sleek combat aircraft run to their jets, armed and ready beneath makeshift sun shelters on a Romanian base near the Black Sea coast. These are not the crews of the home nation's Aerostar-adapted MiG-21 Lancer interceptors, however, but of Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s, deployed to help safeguard NATO territory.
Click the link for the full (and interesting) article.

Forgive my ignorance but are Tranche 1 a/c (as mentioned in the article) also FGR4s?
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