Posted on 04/28/2014 9:14:47 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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Just out of curiosity, has any American pilot ever defected with a new aircraft type?
Didn’t think so...
Where does the RADAR go?
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I love it.
Ping
“Fishbed”?? Who the hell picked that one?
Not that I am aware.
However, a Taiwanese pilot did, reportedly, take a US made F-16 Block 15 with enhanced capabilities into China.
It really caused an uproar and a refit to newer technology for the Taiwanese fleet of F-16’s.
Not yet,,, but give Obama a few years. Im under the theory that the average German didn’t know they were the bad guys in WWII. The Average Russian didn’t understand they were the evil empire.
Regular people went to work, bitched about repression here and there, but always assumed it was kinda justified by the threat from the Jews, Kulaks, saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, etc. Kinda like us today seeing “terrorists” everywhere and half the ads on the radio are public service announcements about “having an emergency plan”,, “see something say something”,, etc.
We already harass citizens at the border. Claim legal arrest authority on Americans world wide who violate foreign laws from exotic wood, who have sex outside of American law but within local law, etc. We are one of the few countries that taxes income earned by citizens living outside the country.
Lots of little red flags, but my warning sign that we have become a dictatorship is when our first flyer defects.
Serendipity.
Just last night I watched the Clint Eastwood movie “Firefox.”
What?!? The purge of Flag Officers isn't enough?
“Fishbed”?? Who the hell picked that one?”
NATO. They picked all the names. Bear, Bison, Fishbed, Fagot, Farmer, etc.
Wonder what happened to the family of that defecting Iraqi pilot?
“However, a Taiwanese pilot did, reportedly, take a US made F-16 Block 15 with enhanced capabilities into China.”
Never heard that. Sure he was handsomely paid, but you never know with the Chinese. They may have decided they couldnt trust his and have him breaking rocks somewhere. They can be inscrutable. I’m going to google to look for THAT story. Unreal.
why can’t the Israelis desist from the garish paint jobs?
You know,, the purge is indeed a big one. Good call.
That NATO code name is better than the one for the MiG-15.
The best ever paint jobs were the USN and USMC in the 70s and early 80s. Those were the days.
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