Munir Redfa defected from Iraq to Israel with his MIG-21 in 1966. When westerner military techs finally got a look at the plane they couldn’t believe that the plane was riveted together. The seams in the skin of the plane were not even flush.
also found that the wing root structure was cast steel, vice titanium.
“Munir Redfa defected from Iraq to Israel with his MIG-21 in 1966. When westerner military techs finally got a look at the plane they couldn’t believe that the plane was riveted together. The seams in the skin of the plane were not even flush.”
And it used vacuum tubes!!! What a bunch of backward neanderthals, using vacuum tubes!!!
...and then they realized that our planes would drop out of the sky with an EMP and their planes would hum right along, unabated.