America’s MiG Air Force -- David Axe, Offiziere.ch
For at least 35 years the U.S. military has operated Soviet- and Russian-made MiG and Sukhoi jet fighters.
Speaking at an Air Force Association event in Virginia on Tuesday, Jack Manclark, former U.S. Air Force former test director, described overseeing Constant Peg, a once classified program that ran from 1977 to 1988.
When Manclark took over in 1985, the Constant Peg initiative included 26 MiG-21s and MiG-23s acquired through undisclosed channels, Manclark said. Constant Peg’s 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron reportedly once also operated 1960s–vintage MiG-17s from its base in Utah’s Tonopah Test Range.
The Pentagon declassified Constant Peg in 2006.
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My Comment: I would to know if the Russians or the Chinese have an equivalent in their country on American aircraft.
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