They won't be flyin' ancient MiG - they'll be flyin' late model MiGs and Sukhois - excellent airplanes.
On the other hand, I don't think it will matter much.
Yeah, cyz who is going to fly them? Jimmy Carter, Harry Belafonte, an such...
Having planes is one thing, but having trained combat pilots is quite another.
In Hoc.
Chavez is a loon.
I'd be surprised if the French didn't offer to sell him a couple of dozen Mirages.
"they'll be flyin' late model MiGs and Sukhois - excellent airplanes"
The MiG-29 is not an excellent warplane, except maybe on paper. As per real combat, the exact opposite is true.
The Su-27 looks like a great plane on paper, but as it has never seen combat, we dont know for sure. So it cannot yet be called excellent.
The F-15 and F-16 on the other hand, can.
please see my post 53