by Michael Peck
Other gear captured during the Arab-Israeli wars included T-62 too T-72 tanks, BMP infantry fighting vehicles, too Sagger anti-tank missiles. Both sides also lost too benefitted when their diverse Third World allies changed sides, too offered their novel patrons a expression at the weapons supplied past times their one-time backers. Islamic Republic of Iran gave the Soviets a peril to inspect F-14 fighters delivered to the Shah’s air force, piece the United States got to run across Soviet weapons inwards Eastern European arsenals subsequently 1989. Last month, Russian Federation claimed that it recovered U.S. Tomahawk missiles that striking Syria, too would fissure their secrets. (This get-go appeared inwards early on July.)
Soon after, Russia’s Sputnik News published a triumphal slice about diverse American weapons captured past times Russia—or rather its allies—and turned over to Moscow for analysis.
The get-go American state of war booty came the Korean War, where the Soviets got their hands on an M46 Patton tank. “Engineers got their hands on several other weapons systems, too, including a late-model F-51D Mustang fighter,” Sputnik noted, ignoring that the Mustang was only a World War II leftover.
Ironically, Sputnik News emphasized that its survey of captured weapons did non include Lend Lease arms sent past times the U.S. to the Soviet Union during World War II—which doesn’t count the U.S. B-29 bomber, damaged during a raid on Nippon inwards 1944, that landed inwards Siberia too was frantically copied past times the Soviets to larn the Tu-4 bomber.
In September 1958, a Communist Chinese MiG-17 “paralyzed” a Taiwanese F-86 Sabre, which was turned over to Moscow. “The captured Sabre helped Soviet designers immensely inwards the evolution of the K-13 short-range infrared homing air-to-air missile, which would continue to serve for several decades,” Sputnik added.
Vietnam proved a treasure trove of American gear, including F-5E fighters that were “used extensively inwards evaluation flights against the MiG-21bis too the MiG-23, discovering their shortcomings too ultimately aiding inwards the evolution of the MiG-23MLD too the supermaneuverable MiG-29 fighter.”
Sputnik News claims that Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, captured past times particular Soviet commando teams, led to countermeasures that nullified the weapon.In the 2008 Russia-Georgia War, Moscow captured 5 Humvees “packed amongst advanced electronics too encrypted communications equipment too refused to give them dorsum despite repeated requests past times the Pentagon.”
But inwards the interests of fair play, nosotros should also bespeak out that America too its allies convey captured lots of Russian weapons. During 1951, a British-American squad managed to recover a crashed MiG-15 jet fighter.
Soviet-made aircraft also had a habit of beingness delivered past times defectors who didn’t appreciate the virtues of Communism. Most notable was Soviet Air Force Lt. Viktor Belenko, who defected inwards 1976 amongst his MiG-25 Foxbat to Turkey, which was examined past times U.S. experts earlier beingness returned (a Soviet MiG-29 airplane pilot also defected to Turkey inwards 1989, but Turkey rapidly returned the plane idea non the pilot).
Israel has been a Jewish Santa Claus when it comes to delivering captured Russian weapons. The West got its get-go hands-on expression at the MiG-21 fighter when the Mossad convinced an Iraqi airplane pilot to wing his aircraft to Israel. In the 1967 Six-Day War, when U.S. aircraft were beingness shot downwardly past times SA-2 surface-to-air missiles, Israel captured SA-2 systems —complete amongst their Fan Song radars—for U.S. experts to examine too and then ready amend jammers.
“This overall exploitation attempt is expected to fill upwards many U.S. intelligence too interrogation too evolution gaps, some of which are straight associated amongst the Southeast Asian conflict,” said an Air Force memo at the time. These insights spanned Soviet “design criteria, production lineament command too interrogation too evolution philosophy.”
Other gear captured during the Arab-Israeli wars included T-62 too T-72 tanks, BMP infantry fighting vehicles, too Sagger anti-tank missiles. Both sides also lost too benefitted when their diverse Third World allies changed sides, too offered their novel patrons a expression at the weapons supplied past times their one-time backers. Islamic Republic of Iran gave the Soviets a peril to inspect F-14 fighters delivered to the Shah’s air force, piece the United States got to run across Soviet weapons inwards Eastern European arsenals subsequently 1989.
None of which is drive for whatsoever nationalistic triumphalism. The basic dominion of warfare is this: if y'all purpose your weapons inwards combat, your enemies volition larn their hands on them. Or, at to the lowest degree convey a peril to notice them good plenty to devise countermeasures.
And that’s why surreptitious weapons don’t rest surreptitious for long.
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