USAF MIG's?

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cko2300

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Does the Air Force or any other military have any MIG's?
There is some kind of huge military exercise in Guam and I think I saw some MIG's among several other military aircraft.
Anybody Know what they might have been?
 
cko2300 said:
Does the Air Force or any other military have any MIG's?
There is some kind of huge military exercise in Guam and I think I saw some MIG's among several other military aircraft.
Anybody Know what they might have been?
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Not actively flying as part of any operational unit, no.
 
Thank you.

Could it be some kind of civilian contractor or something apart of the military exercise, or foreign air force?

There call sign was MIG one, MIG two and such. I couldn't here there radio calls because I think they were on UHF. I could just here Approach giving them instructions.
 
Realize that there were two different units -- the Red Eagles, who were a TAC unit flying at Tonopah and developing tactics, and the Red Hats, who were a AFSC unit flying out of Groom Lake, who were doing technology exploitation.

Very different units and VERY different levels of de-classification. The Red Eagles have been acknowledged, and although much about their exploits is still under wraps, Steve Davies was able to write a very interesting book about them.

The Red Hats....totally different story. Nobody's talking about them.
 
cko2300 said:
Thank you.

Could it be some kind of civilian contractor or something apart of the military exercise, or foreign air force?

There call sign was MIG one, MIG two and such. I couldn't here there radio calls because I think they were on UHF. I could just here Approach giving them instructions.
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Did you SEE the MiGs, or just hear them on the radio?

"MiG" is a common callsign we use for US jets that are providing adversaries, and could have been just about any aircraft type.
 
Hacker15e said:
Did you SEE the MiGs, or just hear them on the radio?

"MiG" is a common callsign we use for US jets that are providing adversaries, and could have been just about any aircraft type.
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Yes I saw one about 1500ft above us. The wings were swept back like the F-86 wing and the nose looked pointy, or it had a long thing which looked like a long pitot tube.

Maybe it wasn't a MIG and was some other plane like a Sukhoi?
 
cko2300 said:
Yes I saw one about 1500ft above us. The wings were swept back like the F-86 wing and the nose looked pointy, or it had a long thing which looked like a long pitot tube.

Maybe it wasn't a MIG and was some other plane like a Sukhoi?
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But if you were directly on top of him, how could you see him do a -4g pushover?
 
Don't know if they still fly them but the German Air Force had some left over from unification. For a while some were based in the US.
 
Maybe it was the Indian AF? They have participated in a lot of Red Flags and some exercises in Alaska. Maybe they got invited to participate in the Guam exercise?

The Germans sold all of their MiG-29s to the Poles.

Are you sure it wasn't military aircraft painted up as adversaries? I think there are still F-16s and F/A-18s painted in foreign paint schemes.
 
Mike Lewis said:
Are you sure it wasn't military aircraft painted up as adversaries? I think there are still F-16s and F/A-18s painted in foreign paint schemes.
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My squadron has two bravos that are almost as old as I am, one with a cool Iranian style camo scheme, the other (the "new" one) with some sort of grey on grey blotchy cool looking scheme. Anyway, probably relatively hard to mistake a Hornet for a MIG
 
I'm pretty sure it wasn't an EA-6B or Harrier. The closest thing it looked like was an F-86 as the wings were swept back and I'm pretty sure it wasn't an F-86.
I looked around and the closets thing I could come across was the Su-7.
 
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