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Friday, October 17, 2014

That's not a plane...

Breathless in the press over flying Muzzies:


Reliable resource reported to SOHR that Islamic State organization has [captured] 3 warplanes that can fly and maneuver. These warplanes are expected to be MiG 21 and 23. Officers from the Iraqi dissolved army, who are also members in the Islamic State Organization, have overseen the training of some militants in order to be able to lead [sic] these aircrafts...



And? So what? You know what happens when MiG-21s or MiG-23s run up against any remotely modern Western aircraft? They explode. The MiG-21 is a 1960s-era interceptor which relies on ground control intercept radar nets to find targets, a system which ISIS don't have and couldn't operate even if they did. Even if one of them got off the ground on a sortie, it would be shot down less than sixty seconds after it went airborne, was detected by AWACS, handed off to a JSTARS, and assigned as a target package to the nearest F-15 CAP. They may as well throw rocks, because it would be exactly as effective.

The MiG-23 is a 1970s multi-role fighter which was outdated in 1982 when Tomcats from the U.S.S. Kennedy introduced two Libyan MiG-23s to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The only thing either of the MiGs is good for today is blowing up stationary ground targets -- and rather inaccurately at that.

The only mission which ISIS could accomplish in either of these aircraft is bombing their fellow Muslims. Once again, I'm not seeing the problem. Hell, we should ask the Soviets (sorry, I mean the Russians; I get confused with Tsar Putin in charge) to sell them some more bombs.

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