Raining champions of the Arab world

A Royal Moroccan Air Force Alpha Jet has been withdrawn from its training role and is being used to pioneer a new task for the Franco-German trainer – cloud-seeding. Back in Soviet days, the Russian air forces regularly undertook seeding missions to make clouds dump rain early, thereby ensuring dry...

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