Hush Kit: Red Star: The incredible story of the American fighter jet that fell into Soviet hands
Much has been written about USAF’s secret fleet of Soviet fighters, but far less known is the counter story of the American fighter that ended up deep in Russia during the Cold War.
At the end of the war in Vietnam, the USSR received several samples of US aviation equipment captured by the victorious Vietnamese communists, among them was a F-5E light fighter-bomber (of a total of 27 that the North Vietnamese found). The F-5E, serial number 73-00807, was delivered to the Soviet Union. It was an extremely valuable intelligence coup that could tell the Communist super state much about American design and this mass produced aircraft’s capabilities, and how to counter it.
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WNU Editor: I was a teenager at the time, but I do remember my uncle (he was a senior manager in the Soviet Union's satellite program at the time) talking to another one of my uncles at the dinner table on how excited he was (and he was a man who rarely got excited, which is probably the reason why I remember this) on the intelligence coups that the Soviet Union got after the fall of Vietnam. I guess this was one of them.
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