Brandon Herrera
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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They knew how to fight against them.
Like, so the the MiG 23 went really fast in a straight line, like until we built the F-15.
Nothing went faster.
Well, the F-111 technically.
Nothing went faster.
It was super fast compared to everything that we had, but it couldn't turn for shit.
So we would just take it into a turn fight.
And that's how we would beat the MiG-23.
And we learned this because pilots would defect.
We paid East Germany, I think, for the cost of a MiG-19 was roughly the cost for a new Mercedes-Benz.
And we would trade them Mercedes-Benz for MiG-19s.
We got to go back.
We got to go back, guys.
You want some Migs?
Let's go get some Migs.
So, yeah, we did that for years, just fighting against their stuff.
And, you know, aggressor nations are like, you were stealing our technology.
And it's like, no, we already had better shit, but we were just.
Imagine that.
Oh, God.