11.   Cockpit displays for fighter aircraft, proved in the Gulf War, have won a technology award for Smiths Industries of Bishops Cleeve near Cheltenham.

12.   We only have a limited number of fighter aircraft available.

13.   Already, China has bought advanced fighter aircraft, submarines and Russian guided-missile destroyers.

14.   And the Czechs, like the Poles, have to decide in the next several months about buying new fighter aircraft to modernize their forces.

15.   As with their other programs, they are continuing a very detailed and thorough evaluation of the new fighter aircraft.

16.   As we began the military campaign in Afghanistan, allies offered special forces units, fighter aircraft, naval vessels and logistics help.

17.   Attacks from those gunships would be supplemented by the precision bombing of the fighter aircraft the Pentagon is planning to send to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

18.   BAe already is considering an alliance to build next-generation fighter aircraft with either Boeing Co. or Lockheed Martin Corp.

19.   Boeing also ventures into the world of fighter aircraft with its acquisition of McDonnell Douglas.

20.   Boeing and McDonnell Douglas announced yesterday they will work together on a new joint fighter aircraft being developed by Boeing for the U.S. armed forces and the British navy.