“Any military establishment of any country would be upset if its opponent would receive an opportunity to evaluate and test its most modern weapons,” says Moscow-based aviation historian Sergey Isaev. The loose confederation that replaced the Soviet Union was not in a position to stop the buy, and it became one more ignominy in the Soviet collapse. government purchased from the former Soviet state of Moldova in 1997, a deal that kept the jets from being sold to Iran. In a way, it is a war prize, taken in the winning of the cold war. The aircraft gives the impression of a war prize displayed like a head on a stake. Its tires, lifted off the ground by stands, are split and shredded. The MiG-29 Fulcrum outside the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has a hornet’s nest growing in its nose.
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