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Romanian Fishbeds return

Post by 22A » Thu May 26, 2022 3:57 pm

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ro ... IE11FREDHP

Romania has announced that it is returning its MiG-21 LanceR fighters to the skies after it said its remaining flying airframes would be permanently grounded on April 15, 2022. The original stand-down of flying operations came after a spate of crashes involving the type, the most recent occurring on March 2nd, 2022. At the time of the grounding, Romania said they would focus on accelerating its transition to the F-16AM/BM, and that those aircraft and their crews could take on the LanceR's role, including providing air sovereignty patrols and alert scramble capacity for defending Romania's airspace. That plan has now been officially jettisoned, with the deeply upgraded MiG-21s set to serve for at least another year.

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Re: Romanian Fishbeds return

Post by mushbuster » Thu May 26, 2022 4:10 pm

The article goes on to say "on May 15th, 2023, the MiG-21s will finally be removed from the Romanian Air Force's inventory. As part of plans to replace these jets, 17 F-16AM/BMs were previously bought second-hand from Portugal and another 32 are still set to be delivered from Norwegian stocks, but the latter process has been delayed somewhat.

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