LOL!
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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Hard points are like Legos. A few snaps here and there can turn 1 into 17 if balanced properly.
But it’s probably like Big scary gun is an AKR-47-15 Glockenspiel with .50 Caliber Nuke Tipped Cop Killer Magazine Clips, yada yada blah blah used by someone who thinks they are a journalist.
The next aircraft, the squadron of jets, are F/A-18s, not MiG-29s.
We do have allies that fly MiG-29s and also carry AKs.
This is an outrage!! - far left
You can only scream outrage for so long before...we just don’t give a crap.
The first aircraft looked like MiG-21.
The vertical stabilizers aren’t nearly angled enough to be a F-18
LOL!
Does look like an AK on the right.
We supply Russian arms to our allies in many cases. Lots of reasons why, but others can elaborate.
It’s from The HIll. Why does anyone believe them?
Yikes. Touche’
Yeah, I see that now. First look, I thought they were angled. The pic makes it appear that they are, but not near as angled as the F-18.
Oh yea I did not see that in the article, just an embedded video with a couple jet shots and Trump speaking.
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