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From: convex!ewright@uunet.UU.NET (Edward V. Wright)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Unified Germany to use MiG-29s?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 02:57:37 GMT
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From: convex!ewright@uunet.UU.NET (Edward V. Wright)

planck!tobin%hercules@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mike Tobin) writes:


>More than that, the Soviets are offering up the MiG-29 to foreign sales
>(or so I think I remember fro Av Leak).  MiGs and Su's are the one
>thing the Soviets make that can bring in signifigant hard currency.
>That's why the emphasis on GETTING PAID - it's really become the reason
>for the shipment.

>Makes for an interesting concept for USAF and USN Aggressor squadrons!

Actually, the Pentagon's Office of Operational Test and Evaluation
was buying MiGs from the Eastern bloc (Poland, I think) until Congress
got wind of it.  At that point, the Pentagon got its hands slapped and
was told not to do it again.