Russian Air Power Makes Splash in Paris

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BY DANIEL MICHAELS
LE BOURGET, France—At the Paris air show this week, one of the biggest attractions wasn’t an airliner from Airbus or Boeing Co., but a Russian fighter jet.
The new Sukhoi Su-35 streaked across the sky here in flying displays, making its first appearance outside Russia and performing extreme maneuvers that few Western aircraft can achieve.
The plane carries new defense systems and missiles that—for the first time in years for a Russian aircraft—rival those made by Western suppliers.
“I think that this shows we are firmly holding a position as one of the world leaders,” said Mikhail Pogosyan, chief executive …
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