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The Russian Defense Ministry will sign a contract this year to buy a dozen advanced stealth fighter jets, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said February 8.

“We are taking the Su-57 for experimental combat operation,” Borisov said during a visit to Gagarin, the aviation plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

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