If the Akash was that much more advanced than the SA-6, why has it failed to be deployed in significant numbers after almost 20 years of development? Why purchase the Barak indstead? More corruption in the indian armed forces again favouring foreign imports?

Viktor Belenko was the pilot. According to Wikipedia he is an Aerospace Engineer/consultant living in the USA. Former US President Ford granted him asuylum and he was looked after financially by a trust fund set up by the US government.

The MiG was returned in 30 boxes to the Soviet authorities

Thats quite surprising, I thought the US would have kept the aircraft flying for DACT purposes at least, stuck it in a museum somewhere or still kept it in one capacity or another.

This site gives a list of defectors w/aircraft , mostly during the cold war era.

http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/Defections.html

Another page on the same site gives a list of aircraft shot down, against mostly during the cold war.

http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/ColdWar.html

http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/

Any comments as to the accuracy of the info?

Any interesting stories/anecdotes about the incidents, from the gurus here?

Links don’t seem to be working anymore.

What ever happened to the aircraft and the pilot of the MiG-25 defection to Japan? Is there any reliable source to account for what happened afterwards?

I am surprised you were not called a troll or suspected pakistani!!! Coz only these two questions:rolleyes:

It was only a matter of time before the accusations started to fly:

I hear the PAF is very active these days bombing villages frequented by the Taliban. Could it be one of them?

PS:
And “Flying_Monkey” is, as his name suggests, a monkey. He can’t help it. He proved it in the last IAF thread too.
Question is, can you do better??

Yes I am a flying monkey and proud of that fact :dev2: and like ive said before, we are all descended from monkeys, especially you. But if you claim otherwise, I would love to know your evolutionary lineage, is it rat, cow, elephant, snake or all of the above?

One thing you guys serioulsy lack is any sense of humour :p

This was in Jaisalmer. If you care to read the article provided, the LCA weapons test was done in Sarmat range.

Sarmat Range is in Gujurat.

Still doesn’t explain who or what bombed the village. If it wasn’t the LCA, then what else could it be?

The problem sir is that if you go to Iran, or Saudi Arabia or Oman, you are required to observe their rules, customs and laws. If they come to our country why shouldn’t they be required to do the same?

Gary

so what do muslims do which is contrary or against the law of western nations? when people from the west visit any of the countries you mentioned, they behave pretty much as they do in the west, at least from what I’ve seen

Straw man!

I did not ask you about the iniquities of powers Occidental or Oriental.

I did, however, ask you to tell us what it is that leads you to believe that the stereotypes that you are peddling are less invalid than those held up by others.

Did you not understand the question, or can you simply not answer it?

I’ll make it perfectly clear, I’m not peddling any steroetypes, simply stating observations based on the foreign policies of major western powers in their dealings with the muslim, and perhaps, larger world. If you can clearly demonstrate the contrary, I’ll accept my views are sterotypes of the entire western world.