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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Careless error or someone with a motive?
Someone’s gonna hear: You’re FIRED!
Damn, if the guy can get Russian MIGs to support US troops, is there anything he can’t do??
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!”.
I look at the ad.. BULLSHIT THAT A MIG 29
I want to know everything about the people who put this ad together.
l8r
You got me!
Isn’t that what this thread is about?
That is NOT a Mig-29................................
Yet that isn’t a MIG 29 this guy would be wrong
The intern might have thought he was illustrating the threat (if he graduated from college 40 years ago, I might believe that)
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.
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.
Was it even a real plane?
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*??
Likely they googled “stock image military silhouette, non-copyrighted” and picked the first one that met the criteria they were looking for.
There is a commercial company that offers military adversary training using foreign jets, including MiG-29s in Soviet/Russian markings.
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.
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