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Hawker Siddeley to equip Fortugal for

The Week Vol. 2, No. 4, c. 27 July 1964 · p. 11 of the scan · 125 words

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Flight International (6/8/64) reports: "Hawker Siddeley's Blackburn Division is said to be buying some of the Foree Airienne Belsique's redundant Hunter day fighters, These will prebably be rebuilt and modified to FGA standard, a ground attack version. One airforce know to have show intérest in the availability of secondhand Hunters in recent months is that of Tortugal, which at present is eqipped with two squardons of Fa6f intercepters and two squadrone of very old Fé4G American fighter bombers, It would seem that no U.S. replacement for the outworn Fa6Fs, originally supplied as U.S. military aid, has been forthcoming because of Portugal's lengthy war in Anzsola. In this context new U.S. military aid to Fortugal would provoke a storm of diplomatic protest,

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