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Slovak government to send MIG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine - PM
Reuters ^ | March 17, 2023 | Robert Muller, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Andrew Cawthorne, and Angus McSwan

Posted on 03/17/2023 3:35:48 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

The Slovak government approved sending MIG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Friday, stepping up its military assistance to Kyiv in its fight against the Russian invasion.

Slovakia is the second country to send war planes to Kyiv after Poland, which announced on Thursday it would do so.

Its fleet of 11 MiG-29 planes was retired last summer and most of them are not in operational condition. It will send those that are operational and the rest will go for spare parts.

Slovakia will also supply part of its KUB air-defence system, Heger said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: mig; nato; slovakia; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/17/2023 3:35:48 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

They know what the long term consequences of Ukraine losing would be.


2 posted on 03/17/2023 3:46:17 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Timber Rattler

The US will probably replace these outdated fighters with something new that benefits the war machine politicians.


3 posted on 03/17/2023 3:47:42 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
The US will probably replace these outdated fighters with something new that benefits the war machine politicians.

Who will pilot these jets?

4 posted on 03/17/2023 3:56:33 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Timber Rattler

Cool. Let’s send Ukraine all of our old VHS tapes and 8-tracks next.


5 posted on 03/17/2023 3:58:36 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: KobraKai

Or our constitution since we don’t use it anymore.


6 posted on 03/17/2023 4:25:59 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: Timber Rattler
Slovakia is the second country to send war planes to Kyiv after Poland

Do Polish pilots come with those jets?

7 posted on 03/17/2023 4:31:51 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston
More bigoted ethnic jokes from you?

I guess you never learn. once a bigot, always a bigot.

8 posted on 03/17/2023 4:59:19 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

Saw two of those birds up close at a 90’s Cleveland Air Show (era of Glasnost, pre-Clinton ruining the dream). Beautiful aircraft. The Russian pilots performed the “cobra” maneuver along the Burke Lakefront airstrip at a couple thousand feet.


9 posted on 03/17/2023 4:59:33 AM PDT by katana
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

True dat.


10 posted on 03/17/2023 5:00:00 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: KobraKai

The Russians are dragging 1960’s T-62s out of storage. Ukraine does well enough with older equipment.


11 posted on 03/17/2023 5:03:22 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Timber Rattler
Its fleet of 11 MiG-29 planes was retired last summer and most of them are not in operational condition.

Boy, I got a deal for you.

12 posted on 03/17/2023 5:06:38 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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“Slovakia expects to receive compensation in the amount of $900 million for the supply of MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine.” -Slovak Defense Minister


13 posted on 03/17/2023 5:22:54 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Slovakian pilots?


14 posted on 03/17/2023 5:23:52 AM PDT by Trinity5
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To: Erik Latranyi

Slovakia already signed a deal in 2018 to buy F-16s. But your snarky comment is duly noted...

https://www.reuters.com/world/slovakia-get-new-f-16-fighter-jets-year-later-2022-03-10/

https://www.czdefence.com/article/acquisition-of-f-16-fighters-for-the-slovak-army-the-first-pilots-are-already-training-in-the-usa


15 posted on 03/17/2023 5:29:07 AM PDT by Trinity5
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To: Trinity5
Slovakia already signed a deal in 2018 to buy F-16s. But your snarky comment is duly noted...

Thanks for backing that up.

Just as Russia's defense industry thrived supplying weapons to Soviet satellite states, now it is the US defense industry thriving as NATO keeps expanding and expanding.

16 posted on 03/17/2023 5:30:33 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I suggest sending a few A-10’s, even old A-10’s

One A-10 could produce a world of hurt on a Russian armored column delayed by the mines in their path


17 posted on 03/17/2023 5:34:38 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Timber Rattler
AF50602-F-019-B-4922-9982-813-DFB3-FACC9

PING!!!!!

Hat tip to rattler for pointing out the escalation of this war by NATO!

18 posted on 03/17/2023 5:36:02 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: bert
One A-10 could produce a world of hurt on a Russian armored column delayed by the mines in their path

Enough with the 1970s thinking.

Send 20,000 drones (at $100 each) with explosives and decimate the entire opposing army. No loss of life on our side and no waste of expensive military equipment.

But that is not the objective here. The objective is to satisfy US defense contractors who need war after war so they can kickback to our politicians.

19 posted on 03/17/2023 5:38:15 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
as NATO keeps expanding and expanding

only because Russia remains a warmongering menace that keeps attacking & invading its neighbors

if Russia could, somehow, just stop attacking & invading its neighbors, there would be no more need for NATO, duh


20 posted on 03/17/2023 5:44:41 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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