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How the West stole the secret in the lake (Sovjet plane)
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| January 24 2004
Posted on 01/23/2004 9:11:17 AM PST by knighthawk
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:11:51 AM PST
by
knighthawk
(Live today, there is no time to lose, because when tomorrow comes it's all just yesterday's blues)
To: knighthawk
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:14:27 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: knighthawk
Now that is a cool story.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:16:09 AM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: knighthawk
Spook bump.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:17:31 AM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: knighthawk
Is this where we got our APG-65 look-down shoot-down technology which the Russians subsequently stole from us?
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:21:38 AM PST
by
ampat
(to)
To: knighthawk
Thanks for posting that. I find Cold War espionage stories facinating.
To date my favorites are the tapping of a Soviet undesea communication cable where they ran the tap line from Russian waters 1200 miles back to Greenland and the story of the American sub capitan who tailed a Soviet missle sub for 47 consecutive days.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:28:17 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
( <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure put it in your tagline too!)
To: knighthawk
Wasn't the Yak-28 essentially their version of the F-lll?
Info, please.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:30:03 AM PST
by
Dionysius
To: knighthawk
Great post. I saw a program on the History Channel early one morning that discussed the advanced planes that we took from Japan. Japan didn't have a chance to get some of them in the air, some of them were still prototypes.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:30:54 AM PST
by
Jaysun
(The liberal mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.)
To: knighthawk
Great post. I saw a program on the History Channel early one morning that discussed the advanced planes that we took from Japan. Japan didn't have a chance to get some of them in the air, some of them were still prototypes.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:30:57 AM PST
by
Jaysun
(The liberal mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.)
To: knighthawk
The Hunt for Wet October?
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:33:54 AM PST
by
The G Man
(Wesley Clark is just Howard Dean in combat boots)
To: Dionysius
Wasn't the Yak-28 essentially their version of the F-lll? Info, please.No, the Firebar (Yak-28P) was an interceptor version of the Yak-28 Brewer, a twin-engined medium bomber of about 1960 vintage.
To: knighthawk
YAK 28 BREWER
Photo courtesy Federation of American Scientists, FAS.ORG
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:40:20 AM PST
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: Dionysius
Wasn't the Yak-28 essentially their version of the F-lll? Sukhoi Su-24 FENCER
Photo courtesy FAS.ORG
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:44:59 AM PST
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: Rebelbase
Another fan of Blind Man's Bluff
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:45:45 AM PST
by
Fudd
To: xsrdx
I usually don't say things like this, but that is one *ugly* airplane.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:48:06 AM PST
by
Fudd
To: Fudd
Haven't read it yet, but I will soon.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:49:28 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
( <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure put it in your tagline too!)
To: Fudd
As Soviet design bureaus go, Yakovlev had a gift for making truly ugly airplanes.
Sukhoi aircraft were typically more attractive, with Mikoyan-Gurevich stuff somewhere in the middle.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:51:51 AM PST
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: knighthawk
I don't know if I buy into this as some kind of huge "score" we got. I've heard the MIG-25 radar we got from the defector to Japan was amazing only in that it used teeny tiny vacum tubes. Hundreds of them.
I'm sure it was an intellegence coup, only in what it told about their weaknesses.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:56:07 AM PST
by
narby
(The Greens, like the Nazis before them, are inordinate, i.e., there is no limit to their demands.)
To: knighthawk
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