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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Bundeswehr flying MIG-29
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Date: 24 Oct 90 11:42:20 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
> Actually I think what you _really_ mean is the Luftstreitkrafte. The 
>German air force hasn't been called the Luftwaffe since the end of the
>Second World War.

Well, in the book about Erich Hartmann, the 
modern-day West German airforce is referred to 
as the "Bundesluftwaffe". I suppose this would 
translate into "Air Force of the Federation". 
The book has some interesting comments about 
their adoption of the F-104 (Hartmann argued 
against it, saying that, for a budding air force,
the F-104 was a little too hot to handle. Hart-
mann commanded the first all-jet Jagdgeschwader.
I belive it was called the Richtofen Geschwader, 
carrying on a tradition. 
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