Monday, March 1, 2010

Albania wants to rebuild its military aviation - assistance of the "usual suspect"

The Albanian government is trying to rebuild its military aviation, used aircraft to the west, which very likely be supplied by Turkey.

Today, Albania is based on Greek and Italian fighter jets to patrol alternately in the airspace, as the fleet of fighting, from 2005 onwards, it is practically out of service.

The Albanian air force, based on old Soviet fighter and later a Chinese copies, which are now completely discredited and rot within the infinite "Bunker" which had built Enver Hoxha .

However, according to "fox2", 12 Albanian pilots are trained each year in aviation academies in Turkey, which expects to sell used equipment, aircraft or F4 and F16, also in view of the obligations of Albania to NATO.

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