OK guys, here we go…
Venezuela plans to acquire 50 of Russia’s most advanced warplanes…
Venezuela won´t adquire the Mig-29, all info is based in rumors, isolated and non confirmated affirmations and missinformation to say the least…
…says the document signed by the Venezuelan air force commander, Maj. Gen. Regulo Anselini Espin, a copy of which has been obtained by UPI….
He isn´t the current commander of the VAF… he was in charge in late 2001, when the twin-seater Mig-29M2 and a Mig-29UB came to Venezuela for a demostration…
…More than half of Venezuela’s 22 F-16s are currently grounded due to a lack of maintenance and spare parts….
Totally wrong… the operational status of the VAF fleet is OK and currently a modernization program for the fleet is being negotiated with several int´l companies…
ah, BTW the VAF flet is composed of 21 machines not 22…
There are already several MiGs in Venezuela, according to Colombian defense officials who have shown UPI photographs of the planes being prepared for flight testing at the Libertador air base in Maracaibo….
totally wrong again… first, the pics released about the presence of the two twin-seaters MIG-29s (a standard UB and the M2) were totally public… they appeared in the news too…. I have several pics of them… this happened between nov-dec 2001….
..and the Libertador AB isn´t located in Maracaibo…
The sources say that Russia’s defense attache, air force Col. Oleg Krayotin, holds regular meetings with Venezuelan Defense Minister Garcia Carneiro.
…AFAIK, Col. Oleg Krayotin left Venezuela several months ago…
Well guys.. hope this help to clarify the topic…
finally I must to say; after the 2001 demostration and some trials… the VAF technical Commision didn´t approve the adquisition of the MIG-29 for Venezuela…
regards.-
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