Captured Warplanes
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Captured Warplanes
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#2I wanted to like this article but it was all over the place. More attention was paid to the color schemas than how the airplanes were actually captured.
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#3I'll add Ju 88 R-1 W/NR.360043, which is remarkable because the defection required coordination among two of the crew (who held the third at gunpoint).
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/78-AF-953...
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#4Also funny that the "Soviet Enemy MiG-28"s from Top Gun were in fact F-5's with red stars painted on them, making that a bit less far-fetched :D I never knew they actually captured one of those.
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#6I remember that during the Falklands war one British fighter ran out of fuel and landed in Brazil. The Brazilians returned the plane, but without one of its missiles - it turns out that it was equipped with an American missile (officially, the US was not involved - Brazil itself gave some help to Argentina too).
Edit: found a source, it was a Shrike missile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck#Black_Buc...
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#7I wanted to like this article but it was all over the place. More attention was paid to the color schemas than how the airplanes were actually captured.
Bizarre writing, too. I can't stand when writers enjoy their owner "clever" writing more than the storyline.
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#8I wanted to like this article but it was all over the place. More attention was paid to the color schemas than how the airplanes were actually captured.
i'm glad somebody else felt this way. i was having so much trouble focusing i was worried i'd forgotten how to read
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#9Soviet B-29: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
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#10Also funny that the "Soviet Enemy MiG-28"s from Top Gun were in fact F-5's with red stars painted on them, making that a bit less far-fetched :D I never knew they actually captured one of those.
Yes, as all the kids obsessed with military hardware noticed right away. I'm sure real captured Soviet planes were too valuable to risk for a movie, not to mention their existence was probably kept secret.
(Another common error that warplane buffs immediately recognise is the replacement of Bf 109 by Ha-1112.)