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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | But the Russians aren't coming |
 | | At first glance, it looked quite a pleasant task: the sun was shining, the Eurofighter was gleaming, and the people queueing, who wore T-shirts with missiles on them and held carrier bags advertising the Daily Mail, did not seem likely opponents of the military-industrial complex. |
 | | Yet the Eurofighter was devised in a very different era: when massed formations of Russian aircraft were anticipated by western military planners as an accompaniment to an invasion of Europe. |
 | | As Andy Wishart, a senior engineer and Eurofighter veteran, put it last week: "The waters have never been smooth, shall we say." Almost in passing, he mentions that there are still "minor technical problems". |
| www.guardian.co.uk /military/story/0,11816,1003333,00.html (1747 words) |
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