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WASHINGTON--Croatia has cancelled the upgrade of its aging MiG-21 fighters by Israel's Elbit (ESLTF) due to a lack of funds in its 2001 defense budget, defense minister Jozo Rados said last month.
Elbit first won the contract, estimated to be worth $30 million, to upgrade Croatia's 20 MiG-21 fighters at the beginning of 1999. However, as recently as August, Elbit was still in negotiations for the program.
Col. Dusan Viro, a spokesman for Croatia's ministry of...





