US plane is spotted in a mock dogfight with a Russian jet above the top secret Area 51 base

Daily Mail UK ^ | 07:39 EST, 17 January 2017 | Updated: 10:25 EST, 17 January 2017 | Darren Boyle

[The Great RJ]

Nothing new...even in WW-II the US was evaluating a captured Japanese Zero

[Army Air Corps]

F-16s were a common sight in my hometown. I never got tired of seeing them go vertical.

[Heart-Rest]

"It’s called Red Flag where our pilots go up against Russian and other countries ACM."

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As distinguished from the Red Baron encounters...

[KarlInOhio]

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.

[ought-six]

These exercises are routine, and have been taking place for decades.

[Magnum44]

and...

the smoker you drink the player you get. :)

[Tallguy]

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.

[LouAvul]

but you can't pick your friend's nose.........

Sort of like Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown?

[trebb]

They get as real as possible for training.

[HLPhat]

Who won?