[QUOTE=Camaro]
the FAE, never came to challenge the Migs (talking about 97/98 before the final peace agreement) and when challenged (it did happened quite often, peruvian Migs orbiting inside ecuatorian airspace) they never came.
Camaro 🙂
Camaro and the rest of You.
If the FAE never challenged the Mig-29s in 1997/1998 is for two reasons:
1) Like You said above, there was a Peace Agreement taking place, Not an act of war !!! unless for You both things mean the same.
2) Mig-29s from Peru did not enter ecuadorean airspace. Their order was to fly along the border but not to fly over ecuadorean territory. Why ? I don’t know what was the peruvian intention. Maybe scare the ecuadorean politicians so they sign the agreement on a hurry ???
The military mentality is different than what You think.
In Ecuador we are trainned to accomplish the mission order by our superior Officers no matter what the combat conditions are, how it was demonstrated on February 10 1995 when two Mirages F-1 from the Ecuadorean Air Force went to intercept a formation of Four Sukhois SU-22 escorted by two Mirage 2000s. The results: Two Sukhois Su-22 from Peru’s Air Force shotdown by magic AA missiles fired from the cockpit of the two Mirage F-1s. Proof??? The Mirages returned to their Base without missiles and the peruvian pilots never returned Home. AS SIMPLE AS THAT !!!!!
Meanwhile, Two Kfirs C2 intercepted two peruvian A-37s flying at low level, again, these being scorted by Mirages 2000s.
The result:
One A-37 shotdown and the other is not known its faith because when trying to escape, this A-37 entered into clouds at very low level where there was a mountain. Personally, I think that pilot didn’t make it to his Base either, simply because his picture or his actual situation hasn’t being properly presented, even in the Official Peruvian Air Force’s web site, where, by the way, the superiority that the some peruvians is claimed, simply is not shown.
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