UNITED KINGDOM

Subject to the findings of Britain's current Strategic Defense Review, the RAF is planning a major structural upgrade of some 80 of its 140 or so BAe Hawk advanced jet trainers, to rectify rear-fuselage fatigue problems. Having entered RAF service in 1976 with a 20-year design life, nearly half of...

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