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Russian jets identified in Trump campaign ad calling for support for the troops
The Hill ^ | 09 14 2020 | Rebecca Klar

Posted on 09/14/2020 9:27:18 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A recent digital ad for President Trump’s reelection campaign calling for the public to “support our troops” reportedly used a stock image of Russian-made fighter jets and weapons, Politico reported Monday, citing experts who identified the image.

“That’s definitely a MiG-29,” Pierre Sprey, who helped design both the F-16 and A-10 planes for the U.S. Air Force, told Politico regarding the photo in the ad. “I’m glad to see it’s supporting our troops.”

Ruslan Pukhov of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow also confirmed to Politico that the planes are Russian MiG-29s and said the soldier on the far right carries an AK-74 assault rifle.

The digital ad was made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee and ran from Sept. 8 to Sept. 12. It features the silhouette of soldiers standing beneath the jets.

In identifying the jets to Politico, Sprey noted the angle of the aircraft’s tail and the spacing of the engines. Russia’s MiG-29 was developed during the Cold War specifically to counter American F-15s and F-16s, and the U.S. obtained a few to play the adversary in war games, Politico noted.

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KEYWORDS: campaignad; mig29; trump
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Always check the work of the interns and the interns themselves.

Careless error or someone with a motive?

1 posted on 09/14/2020 9:27:18 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Someone’s gonna hear: You’re FIRED!


2 posted on 09/14/2020 9:36:11 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: yesthatjallen

Damn, if the guy can get Russian MIGs to support US troops, is there anything he can’t do??


3 posted on 09/14/2020 9:41:04 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

LOL, you’re the kid who finds a dump truck load of manure in the driveway and starts digging, saying “oh boy, there’s a pony in here somewhere!”.


4 posted on 09/14/2020 9:49:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

I look at the ad.. BULLSHIT THAT A MIG 29


5 posted on 09/14/2020 9:50:05 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Someone’s gonna hear: You’re FIRED!

I want to know everything about the people who put this ad together.

6 posted on 09/14/2020 9:50:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

l8r


7 posted on 09/14/2020 9:51:47 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: DesertRhino

You got me!


8 posted on 09/14/2020 9:59:09 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: tophat9000

Isn’t that what this thread is about?


9 posted on 09/14/2020 10:07:19 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: yesthatjallen

That is NOT a Mig-29................................


10 posted on 09/14/2020 10:17:20 PM PDT by cranked
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To: yesthatjallen

Yet that isn’t a MIG 29 this guy would be wrong


11 posted on 09/14/2020 10:22:22 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: yesthatjallen

The intern might have thought he was illustrating the threat (if he graduated from college 40 years ago, I might believe that)


12 posted on 09/14/2020 10:31:48 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Um, the only planes I saw in the article were definitely NOT Mig-29s, they have a pretty significant down-bump on the underside where the air intakes are. I didn’t see those on either the single plane or the big group of em.


13 posted on 09/14/2020 10:50:02 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

Whoops, didn’t mean to submit yet.

Single plane only has a single vertical stabilizer, the Mig has two.

If you look at the far right of the screen for the group, their stabilizers are angled away from each other. A Mig’s two tails are both straight vertical.


14 posted on 09/14/2020 10:52:46 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: yesthatjallen

Was it even a real plane?


15 posted on 09/14/2020 11:05:05 PM PDT by McGruff (Polls are for dancing)
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Definitely look like MIG 29’s. Dumb... When I see stuff like this I have a hard time believing that it was an accident. I mean couldn’t the intern at least Google *U.S. Fighter Jet*??


16 posted on 09/14/2020 11:24:09 PM PDT by NImerc
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This is the actual ad. wwer
17 posted on 09/14/2020 11:27:27 PM PDT by NImerc
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To: NImerc

Likely they googled “stock image military silhouette, non-copyrighted” and picked the first one that met the criteria they were looking for.


18 posted on 09/14/2020 11:51:03 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("May You Live in Interesting Times": Ancient Chinese Curse. The Wuhanic Plague: Modern Chinese Curse)
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To: Still Thinking

There is a commercial company that offers military adversary training using foreign jets, including MiG-29s in Soviet/Russian markings.

https://air-usa.com/aircraft

So, technically, the MiG-29 in the campaign ad could marybe, possibly be a US -owned and operated aircraft.

But the more truthful answer probably is that the production team was on deadline and someone was not as careful as they should have been grabbing images from the archives/off of the Internet.

Not the first time it has happened. Won’t be the last.


19 posted on 09/15/2020 12:01:03 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (When the enemy is making a major strategic blunder, DO NOT interrupt him.)
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To: Svartalfiar; Chode
I'm going with a MIG-35.

20 posted on 09/15/2020 12:02:16 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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