Just finished reading Steve Davies' Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs (Osprey Publishing, 2008); an account of the CONSTANT PEG programme that used MiG-17s, 21s and 23s as Aggressor adversaries to help in the training of US aircrew.

 

A highly interesting read, which illuminates an interesting aspect of the Cold War.

 

Anyone else here read it?

Further article on this

Very interesting the issue of the AIM-9P decoyed by the Soviet flares but not by the US flares!

More about this topic:

http://www.offiziere.ch/?p=8911

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123031752

http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Features/...12constant.aspx

http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineA...07/0407peg.aspx