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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US Posession of Foreign A/C
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.014836.2365@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Aug 90 01:48:36 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <1990Aug18.182547.24334@cbnews.att.com>, TABOR DEAN J writes: 
*Has there ever been any public acknowledgement of the US "owning" aircraft from
*other governments, ie; the Soviet Union?  I am 99.99% positive that we have at
*least one (I *thought* I saw something, but...)

it's hardly a secret that the US `owns' a number of older Migs (15,17,19,21)
captured by various allies (notably Israel) and passed along.  note that
generally the US doesn't have the `best' versions of these aircraft, as
the Soviets generally don't sell the nicest ones outside of Eastern
Europe (and probably not that anymore.)

richard
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