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From: pspod@kira.lerc.nasa.gov (Steve Podleski)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Unified Germany to use MiG-29s?
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Date: 5 Jul 90 02:06:17 GMT
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From: pspod@kira.lerc.nasa.gov (Steve Podleski)
In article <1990Jun26.024954.15340@cbnews.att.com> morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
:
:smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
: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....
:
:That would be interesting, though; I'm sure that the folks in OPFOR
:would just *love* to dump those mockups and fly the real thing in
:simulations. 8)

I'm pretty sure that the Russians wouldn't mind getting some real cash
for their MiG 29s. I think the only sensitive technology on the MiG is
the avionics which is mostly obsolete by Western standards and the
Germans will probably use their own avionics.