Posted on 07/22/2013 1:16:33 PM PDT by RainMan
Hmmm... so planes wear prophylactics on their “probes” too, eh?
No wonder the captain tried to commit suicide when they searched the ship.
What most people are missing, because they are stupid, is that this is all part of the current Spy Games.
MiGs, you see, aren’t a banned munition or armament. Heck, civilians can purchase them on the open market without so much as a permit.
In fact, everything on that old rust bucket NK ship...packed in sugar (the irony of which our CIA will never grasp because our CIA is stupid)...is legal.
Now, the fact that everything on the NK ship is legal won’t, at first, mean anything to most Americans.
...but here’s the deal:
#1: the Russian FSB pranked our CIA two weeks ago by leaking that Snowden was on the Bolivian President’s airplane. Except, he wasn’t. And after publicly stating that he wouldn’t down aircraft to get Snowden, 0bama tried doing exactly that. The Bolivian President’s jet was re-routed and ordered to land in Europe where it was inspected against the diplomatic protests of Bolivia’s President! Embarrassing.
To this day our stupid CIA still doesn’t get the joke.
#2: the Russian FSB leaked that this NK rustbucket ship was carrying long-range missiles for North Korea. Except, it wasn’t. Instead of banned missile tech, it was packed with half-century old junk.
To this day our stupid CIA still doesn’t get this joke, either. Embarrassing.
#3: in two more weeks, the Russian FSB will prank our CIA again...and our stupid CIA will fall for it. Again.
This will continue until *finally* someone in the CIA or NSA realizes that some of their data-mining (e.g. PRISM, PRIIMUS, others) is being spoofed for sport.
Until then it will be diplomatic faux pas after FUBAR after faux pas after FUBAR internationally for the U.S.
...because our CIA is stupid.
Embarrassing.
You only said that because it is true. It is hard to watch our nation die.
Truthspeaker bump!
In the event something like this happened and they were compromised.
Their SOP is mass suicide when corner, caught or arrested. Like the man/woman pair of bombers on KAL some years ago, only she apparantly did not bite down hard enough and Bahrain officials could wrestle the cyanide laced tobacco out of her mouth in time...it only left a burn mark.
I would take away any DPRK cigarettes from the crew and have them searched from head to toe, and put in Panamanic prison garb, to prevent any suicides. Eventually one of them will "talk". Some enticement money could see to that. I wonder how savvy Panama is to these "realities". Perhaps somebody should tell them.
I think Red Bull had a MiG.
>>>>Seriesly!
MiG fighters from the 1950’s?
Yah...you betcha. They’re not worth the sugar they were packed in.<<<<<
With proper avionics suite and good missiles it is still a match for F-16s, especially older versions.
As a fighter, it’s not worth much. As a manned cruise missile delivering a nuke/chem/bio package...
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