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Subject: Python V for USAF F-16s
Phaid    11/13/2006 9:15:56 AM
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US defense news magazine ?Defense News? reports that the US Air Force is to buy 20 Python 5 Full Sphere air-to-air missiles from Rafael Armament Development Authority Ltd., for a F-16 fighter squadron stationed at Nevada. Should the negotiations lead to a contract, this will be the first time that the US Air Force has purchased air-to-air missiles from a foreign manufacturer. Sources at Rafael?s US office declined to comment on the report.
 
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Phaid       11/13/2006 9:18:46 AM
Just a guess here, but if they're contemplating buying 20 of them, I tend to think these are being purchased for evaluation and use by aggressor aircraft.  The fact that the unit is in Nevada kind of bears this out, as do the recent news that the USAF is expanding its aggressor program. 
 
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