In 1989, Zuyev was granted asylum in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union in a MiG 29 and landing in Turkey. |
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Just beyond the camp is a large airfield where dozens of helicopter gunships and MiG fighter jets are protected by concrete bomb shelters. |
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Army helicopter gunships and MiG fighter planes lead the attacks but cannot distinguish between hardened officers and fresh abductees. |
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The fuel bunkers built in the early 1980s by Yugoslavians are located on a former Iraqi air base where MiG pilots once trained. |
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You know that bit when he flies inverted above the enemy MiG and gives him the middle digit? |
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Three of the aircraft that scored MiG kills were older Mirages. |
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Instead, of course, the sweptwing Sabre met the sweptwing MiG over the Yalu and its pilots added another spectacular page in Air Force history. |
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