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		HeyLaughingBoy on Feb 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alask... > So the US built an incredible air superiority fighter to counter a phantom of a jet that never really existed in the way America thought. Are you sure that's what really happened, or did a group of people in the Air Force want an air superiority fighter and use the Mig-25 as the excuse?

LarryMullins on Feb 11, 2023 [–]

By all accounts I have read, the defection of Viktor Belenko with a Mig-25 really did change the way NATO understood the Mig-25.

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