Posted on 01/17/2017 1:56:41 PM PST by PIF
These are the amazing scenes which show a Russian-built fighter jet taking on a US Air Force F-16 in a mock dogfight - in what could be a sign that America is preparing for the possibility of war with Moscow.
The images were captured by air traffic controller Phil Drake in the skies above Area 51 in Nevada, one of the world's most secret military bases, on the day Donald Trump was elected President.
According to Drake, the aircraft in the photographs are a single seater Sukhoi Su-27P and America's veteran F-16.
He was visiting the desert surrounding Area 51 on November 8, the day of the Presidential election. He hoped to see some fast jets involved in a training mission. This is the moment a US Air Force F-16 was photographed involved in a mock dogfight with a Russian SU-27 fighter
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Nothing new...even in WW-II the US was evaluating a captured Japanese Zero
F-16s were a common sight in my hometown. I never got tired of seeing them go vertical.
It was funny in the early 1990s listening to Air Force intelligence people “complain” about how it used to take PhDs to make estimates of Soviet capabilities from blurry pictures but after the fall of the USSR all it took was a checkbook to get the plane or missile plus all the manuals for it.
These exercises are routine, and have been taking place for decades.
and...
the smoker you drink the player you get. :)
The cover story for the B-29 when it was being developed was that it was an ‘advanced B-17’. Worked great until the Russian intel-guys figured out the scam and attempted to buy one lend-lease.
Sort of like Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown?
They get as real as possible for training.
Who won?
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