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To: A strike

You aren’t aware of the Korean War?

Estimates run as high as 1100 of our allied aircraft brought down by Russians.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0410alley/
“Sabre Vs. MiG
Fifth Air Force caught on quickly that the MiG pilots were not Chinese or Koreans. They were Russians. The Americans caught sight of some of them. US intelligence overheard their radio transmissions. The Russians attempted to communicate, as ordered, in Chinese or Korean but reverted to Russian in the heat of battle. Air forces of the three communist nations were controlled by a joint operations center at Antung, but the Russians were clearly dominant.”

Korean United Nations war.
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/korean-war-1950-1953/korean-war/armed-forces/north-korea-china-and-ussr
“They supplied and trained the air forces of China and North Korea. Soviet pilots flew aircraft with Chinese or North Korean markings and after the war claimed to have shot down over 400 UN aircraft.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_the_Korean_War#Soviet_pilots
“It is believed that Soviet pilots (who all flew MiG-15s) shot down 142 - 1,106 UN aircraft (depending on whose estimate is used) during the duration of the war, a higher kill total than that of comparable UN units.[18] Despite this superior performance, the MiGs main goal was to counter the USAF B-29 Superfortress bombers rather than dogfight with other fighters.”


53 posted on 08/02/2025 6:21:09 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Now you are just deliberately being the dumbA that you don’t need to pretend that you’re not.


54 posted on 08/02/2025 3:25:20 PM PDT by A strike (A ceasefire is just a timeout for the loser side to rest. rearm and train .)
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