Author: Thor
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Friends who know more about fighter jets will be a little surprised when they see F111 fighters and Su-24 fighters, because the shape of these two fighters is simply too similar. In fact, the Su-24 fighter was originally an imitation F111 fighter, and behind this there is also a story behind which the Soviet Union stole the US F111 fighter.
In the 1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East, U.S.-backed Israel was in a completely dominant position, and the Arab League was simply unable to resist Israeli warplanes.
At that time, although the Soviet high-level was very angry that the Arab side would not use fighters, the Soviet Union actually had no confidence in its heart, and the Soviet-style weapons they exported to arab countries could not gain the upper hand. Therefore, when the Soviet side participated in the Bourget Air Show in France, it always sent a large-scale team of experts and designers to obtain as much detail as possible about the weapons of the US military and NATO. The American F111 fighter jets appeared at the Bourget Air Show, and the Soviet Union was given a good opportunity to spy on its opponents.
Soviet experts were obsessed with the F111 fighter jet, which was a superstar at the Bourget Air Show. It is equipped with advanced electronic equipment and is able to avoid enemy air defense radars. Its minimum combat height is only equivalent to that of a tree, and it adopts a swept wing design style, which can take off and land smoothly on small airfields on the front line.
In terms of range, the F111 fighter can reach up to 10,000 kilometers away, and even the U.S. military has praised it as the best weapon of the 20th century. Because it was able to silently sneak into enemy positions to launch missiles or bombs, and then sneak away after the attack, this ability far exceeded the level of Soviet fighters.
How can Soviet warplanes reach such a level? The Soviets mobilized their brains and sent Oleg Summerjlovich, a warplane expert at the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The military expert later revealed that his main purpose in sending was to build the F111 fighter jet.
The fighter was surrounded by a guardrail during the air show and was guarded by three U.S. gendarmes. On the first day of the air show, Soviet experts photographed the F111 fighter at a distance, but details like the tail and air intakes needed to be further observed, so the Soviet expert took pictures for three consecutive days.
On the fourth day, as he prepared to go forward for a closer shot, the american gendarmes guarding him came from both sides and drove him out on a leash. In fact, Samuilovich had taken more than 100 photos in the first three days, and he had made detailed notes on each photo, which played a huge role in the design of the Soviet Union's Su-24 fighter.
The shape of the fighter has been obtained, but its core electronics are impossible to obtain at the air show. Because it was guarded by American gendarmes, Soviet experts could not get close. How to get the real F111 fighter, the Soviet Union moved its head. Coinciding with a covert operation code-named "Harvest" against Vietnam, the United States dispatched six F111 fighter jets to prepare for a large-scale attack on Vietnam. The Soviets intercepted the news and began a new plan.
The Soviets made meticulous arrangements for the F111 fighter jets and made very good preparations. They replaced all the military expert delegations in Viet Nam, headed by General Vladimir Abramov, who was a true aviation expert.
Because the aviation expert was in poor health, sending him to a tropical region like Vietnam made his body even more overwhelmed. But the Soviet hierarchy approved his wife's mission to Vietnam together, mainly to take care of the aviation expert. Because he was the soviet union's top night flight expert, and the Soviet side also speculated about the F111 fighter, this fighter generally performs missions at night, so it is most reasonable to send night flight experts. At the same time, the Soviets also sent another night expert, Yepgeny Anshifilov, to serve as the pilot of the hijacked fighter.
On March 17, 1968, the U.S. military sent 6 F111 fighters to land at Takley Airport in Thailand, the Vietnamese side has long known this news, since then, the F111 fighter bombing of Vietnam is always unpredictable, when the bombing is completed and quickly disappeared, how to quickly get the F111 fighter, is a big problem.
However, the U.S. F111 lost three in Vietnam. Strangely enough, only the pilots on the 1st and 3rd F111 planes were spotted by the Vietnamese side. The pilot of the second F111 fighter, although sure that it was dead, the Vietnamese side also confirmed the news that the fighter was shot down, and carried out a search and rescue, but strangely, the Vietnamese side finally searched, but found nothing.
Obviously, this fighter has been shot down, why has it not been found? It turned out that the fighter plane that the United States lost on the battlefield in Vietnam was stolen by the Soviet Union.
That night, Soviet experts who came to the mission discovered the fighter through advanced means and used radio interference to prevent the pilot of the F111 fighter from contacting the base. The Soviet pilot flew the fighter into the air, made a radio call with the pilot of the F111 fighter, and after three inches of persuasion, using coercion and inducement, with the help of the spineless weakness of the American soldiers, he was quickly persuaded and forced to land the fighter at the Vietnamese airfield. The forced landing was carried out by General Ansifilov, who later earned the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but the acquisition of the U.S. F111 fighter jet was so classified that it was not publicized.
After getting the F111 fighter, how to send it back to the Soviet Union became another problem. If you go back to the Soviet Union on land, it will take too long, and the news may leak and be unsafe.
The Soviets thought twice, or it was safer to walk from the sea. Therefore, after the fighter was dismantled, it was packed and transported to the port of Haiphong in Vietnam. According to Vietnamese historical archives, when the Soviets planned to ship the plane back to the Soviet Union in early May, Lieutenant General Abramov and his wife took his colleagues to the sea for a vacation in order to confuse American spies. They specialized in salvage ships for sea pastimes, and also used high-power radio stations to communicate from the Soviet headquarters.
The powered ship Alexei Tolstoy, which was actually on a transport mission, began its journey to the Soviet Union on the evening of July 5, 1968. According to a person familiar with the matter, the Soviet Union has always had warships escorting the transport ship during the return of the transport ship to the Soviet Union.
When the F111 fighter jets were sent to the Soviet Union, they were soon secretly transferred to an airfield in Siberia. The two American pilots on the fighter jet were locked up in a small town, and few people knew the whereabouts of the two pilots. The Soviet KGB later declassified the "plane theft incident," in which it was mentioned that one of the two pilots had expressed a willingness to cooperate and had lived until the death of the Soviet Union, while the other had not cooperated with the Soviet side at all.
At this time, the Soviet Union used an unbelievable method to bring him to an end: he sent a very drunk person to accompany him to drink vodka continuously. Vodka was a spirit that americans couldn't stand at all, and after a few months, the American was drunk to death.
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