Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: yla@IDA.LiU.SE (Yngve Larsson) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Unified Germany to use MiG-29s? Message-ID: <1990Jun29.025812.7577@cbnews.att.com> Date: 29 Jun 90 02:58:12 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Yngve Larsson >From: Wes Morgan > >smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes: >> >>I saw a sketchy news item which mentioned that after the reunification, >>Germany would have access to the East German fleet of MiG-29s. > > >Hmmmmm......I can't see the USSR just calmly handing over a fleet of >MiG-29s........for that matter, are these planes the property of East >Germany, or are they "on loan" from the USSR? I'm sure that the USSR >has some sort of "resale restriction" on its hardware, much like the >US has on its hotter pieces.... Not so: I believe the reason for a unified Germany to fly MiG-29s is that the East German Air Force ordered them back when things were as they used to be :-) Now, the USSR insists on delivering them AND GETTING PAID for them. I think the Germans tried to cancel the order, but to no avail. -- Yngve Larsson UUCP: ...mcvax!enea!liuida!yla Dept of CIS Internet: yla@ida.liu.se Linkoping University, Sweden Phone: +46-13-281949