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| Tango01 | 12 Dec 2017 3:09 p.m. PST |
….American Fighters. "Much has been written about USAF's secret fleet of Soviet fighters, but far less known is the counter story of the American fighter that ended up deep in Russia during the Cold War. At the end of the war in Vietnam, the USSR received several samples of US aviation equipment captured by the victorious Vietnamese communists, among them was a F-5E light fighter-bomber (of a total of 27 that the North Vietnamese found). The F-5E, serial number 73-00807, was delivered to the Soviet Union. It was an extremely valuable intelligence coup that could tell the Communist super state much about American design and this mass produced aircraft's capabilities, and how to counter it…"
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| nvdoyle | 12 Dec 2017 5:03 p.m. PST |
Yes, a fighter that was never in USAF service was an 'extremely valuable intelligence coup'. |
| Fatman | 13 Dec 2017 7:52 a.m. PST |
Well as it was used by about twenty countries including members of NATO yes it would be. The US weren't the only people in the Western Alliance. Fatman |
| Tango01 | 13 Dec 2017 11:00 a.m. PST |
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