Americans reveal Russian MiGs in Venezuela

LENTY.RU ^ | September 17th, 2004

[struwwelpeter]

Probably posted somewhere else under a different title, perhaps this has new details.

[norraad]

All that money we give them for oil had to be drained off somehow.

[taxed2death]

...hmmmm, this would be pretty cool thing to see next month when I'm in Curacao....a little M-29 fly by would be interesting.

[xrp]

I wonder how the poor of Venezuela, Chavez's "people", will benefit from the purchase of these MiG-29s?

[vollmond]

I wonder how the poor of Venezuela, Chavez's "people", will benefit from the purchase of these MiG-29s?

They will benefit by the protection the MiGs provide against them, oops, I mean for them.

[pepsionice]

Theres not a single country in Latin America that needs MIG-29s. This just starts a minor-league problem between Venezuela and all of its neighbors. There was a period in the 1960s where almost of the dictators in Latin America was using its military to threaten neighbors...thus keeping their instablity out of the press. It appears that we are going full-circle now.

[Walkingfeather]

of course who will be flying these 29's for chavez? Does he know planes take pilots?

[HawaiianGecko]

Chavez is becoming more of a headache than he's worth. I think he'll lose his job sometime after our election.

[Buckeye McFrog]

beware the Ides of November....I like it!

[Broker]

Not just his job but his life.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Wow-if the numbers are confirmed,it will be the largest single buy of Mig-29s by a nation after India brought nearly 80 in the late 1980s.Going by the current trend,the variant probably will be the multi-role Mig-29SMT.MIG has been having a quiet revival of sorts with Algeria also showing interest in the Mig-29SMT & India deciding to buy the new generation Mig-29K for the carrier, it is buying from Russia.

[BroncosFan]

1-800-Rent-a-Rus

[Paradox]

This is not going to make the Colombians very happy at all..

[sargon]

Does anyone know how old of a model the MIG-29 is?

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

MiG-29s, up close and personal.

[ScreamingFist]

of course who will be flying these 29's for chavez? Does he know planes take pilots?

The same pilots that fly the F-16 fighter.

[Askel5]

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[struwwelpeter]

Beautiful pic, now that's a keeper.

[ScreamingFist]

FAV F-16s were used in combat during the military coup on November 27th, 1992 against Carlos Andres Perez (at that time President of Venezuela).

FAV= Venezuela Air Force.