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A bit of plageurism from Wikipedia:
Victor Belenko was not the only pilot to have defected from the USSR in this way, nor was he the first such to defect from a Soviet-bloc country. In March and May 1953, two Polish Air Force pilots flew MiG-15s to Denmark. Later in 1953, North Korean pilot No Kum Sok flew his MiG-15 to an American air base in South Korea; this MiG is on permanent display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton, Ohio. In 1985 and 1987, USSR-owned helicopters in the Afghanistan theatre of operations defected to Pakistan. Captain Alexander Zuyev flew his MiG-29 to Trabzon, Turkey on May 20, 1989.
I'm wondering if any US or Western countries have had aircraft dissapear to other countries on promises of riches? Sure, we treat our people better and we're all generally patriotic, but you gotta wonder. I've heard of the Soviets trying to set this up before. Who knows, you learn something knew every day, like when you guys told me that Russian ships used to tail ours all the time.
We've had units testing foreign hardware for a long time. As time goes by, more and more of the cold war will become declassified.
What I found most interesting about my reading today was the fact that Soviet pilots were told that there was a self destruct mechanism tied to the ejection controls, and sufficient timing was allowed for the pilot to clear the aircraft. American reverse-engineering revealed that there was no delay, and any pilot trying to eject from a MIG-25 would've been instantly killed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cold_War_pilot_defections
Victor Belenko was not the only pilot to have defected from the USSR in this way, nor was he the first such to defect from a Soviet-bloc country. In March and May 1953, two Polish Air Force pilots flew MiG-15s to Denmark. Later in 1953, North Korean pilot No Kum Sok flew his MiG-15 to an American air base in South Korea; this MiG is on permanent display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton, Ohio. In 1985 and 1987, USSR-owned helicopters in the Afghanistan theatre of operations defected to Pakistan. Captain Alexander Zuyev flew his MiG-29 to Trabzon, Turkey on May 20, 1989.
I'm wondering if any US or Western countries have had aircraft dissapear to other countries on promises of riches? Sure, we treat our people better and we're all generally patriotic, but you gotta wonder. I've heard of the Soviets trying to set this up before. Who knows, you learn something knew every day, like when you guys told me that Russian ships used to tail ours all the time.
We've had units testing foreign hardware for a long time. As time goes by, more and more of the cold war will become declassified.
What I found most interesting about my reading today was the fact that Soviet pilots were told that there was a self destruct mechanism tied to the ejection controls, and sufficient timing was allowed for the pilot to clear the aircraft. American reverse-engineering revealed that there was no delay, and any pilot trying to eject from a MIG-25 would've been instantly killed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cold_War_pilot_defections
