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2008-06-01 Africa North

Russian Fighter Pilot Shot Down and KIA In Sudan while attacking southern forces

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Posted by 3dc 2008-06-01 17:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 MiG instructor who decided to go after a column of rebels, was shot down, and died when his parachute didn't open. Were I in the Sudanese government, I'd be concerned we'd just wasted an awful lot of limited funds to buy that brand new airforce from Russia. And that just after Syria's purchase failed so spectacularly, allowing Israel to bomb that nuclear facility to bouncing rubble.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-01 17:33|| 2008-06-01 17:33|| Front Page Top

#2 DEBKA > Syria may have had THREE COVERT NUCFACS, not just the one???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-01 18:58|| 2008-06-01 18:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Obligatory Debka Graphic ...

Posted by doc 2008-06-01 19:31|| 2008-06-01 19:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Joe - where did it mention debka and syria in the article I posted?

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-01 21:01|| 2008-06-01 21:01|| Front Page Top

#5 What does the article posted necessarily have to do with any of Joe's comments?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-01 21:29|| 2008-06-01 21:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Nimble Spemble you have a point... I was just wondering... I thought, hmm... did I post a bad link.. no... well reread the story... still nothing.... maybe it's in code or something... hell I don't know....

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-01 22:03|| 2008-06-01 22:03|| Front Page Top

#7 The article doesn't have anything to do with Debka. JosephM was pointing us to something he read there, so we can find it ourselves.

JosephM, given that we/Israel knew all about the first Syrian/North Korean nuclear facilities, if there's another we/Israel likely know about that, too. And it makes sense that given that Israel destroyed the first one, were there another they would have destroyed that/those on the same bombing run.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-01 22:31|| 2008-06-01 22:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Joe picked a better source:
Strategy Page

Russian Fighter Pilot Shot Down In Sudan
May 30, 2008: The death of a Russian fighter pilot in Sudan could not be kept secret, despite the best efforts of the Russian and Sudanese governments. The pilot was an instructor, stationed outside Khartoum, at an air base containing the dozen MiG-29 fighters Sudan bought four years ago. The Russian pilot took one of the MiG-29s into action on May 10th, when a convoy of nearly 200 trucks and jeeps approached the capital. The convoy contained 1,200 JEM rebels from Darfur. The heavily armed rebels were headed for the presidential palace when the MiG-29 attacked. But the rebels had some heavy (12.7mm and 14.5mm machine-guns) on some of those trucks, and the MiG-29 was hit and went down. The pilot ejected, but the chute didn't open and he died on impact.

The Sudanese government tried to keep the death, and loss of a Russian pilot, secret. At least one Sudanese radio station was shut down for broadcasting the "rumor." The story also got out in Russia, via the Internet and at least one independent radio station (the government controls all the network operations). The death of the pilot was known to his family and some of his Russian Air Force friends.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-06-01 22:38|| 2008-06-01 22:38|| Front Page Top

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