i often wondered if the model wasn't a HUGH misinformation ploy since i've read the Soviets dumped a TON of rubles into copying it and trying to make it work till they abandoned the project as unworkable...“I hang my hat on getting as many things right as I can,” Mr. Clancy once said in an interview. “I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real — that’s the spooky part.”
Very true in a lot of cases. The one clean miss (and he wasn't the only one) concerned the stealth fighter portrayed in Red Storm Rising. Back in the mid 80s, my brother was in the Air Force. He and someone he worked with were in the PX looking at a Revel model of the F-19 "Frisbee." My brother's colleague shook his head and said, "Not even close."
My brother didn't know what he meant and was not aware the guy had worked on the F-117 project. The moment of clarity on the comment occurred in 1989 when it was officially unveiled.
i often wondered if the model wasn't a HUGH misinformation ploy since i've read the Soviets dumped a TON of rubles into copying it and trying to make it work till they abandoned the project as unworkable...“ The Sum Of All Fears was my favorite. Too bad they butchered the hell out of it on film.”
Hunt For Red October was the only film that did justice to the book (just my opinion.)