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The MiG-23! The MiG-23 is a variable swept wing, single-engine aircraft designed as a follow-on to the MiG-21 Fishbed. It was designed to combat a variety of US rival fighters like the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Republic F-105 Thunderchief but the new General Dynamics F-111 posed a distinct threat. The Flogger is roughly 2/3 the size of the F-111, had a single-seat cockpit rather than the two-side by side cockpit of the F-111 and the Flogger carried just one engine.More than 5,000 MiG-23s of all types were built.The MiG-23 was widely exported by the Soviet Union. Among the users there was the Cuban Air Force that flew MiG-23ML/MF/BN/UB aircraft until the late 2010s

The Day A Cuban Air Force MiG-23 Pilot Defected To The US

On Mar. 20, 1991 MiG-23 pilot Orestes Lorenzo Perez circled the Naval Air Station (NAS) Key West three times, waggling the wings of his Flogger (the NATO reporting name for the MiG-23) to signal friendly intentions, hoping that no one would shoot down the Soviet-built fighter jet.

Perez said he borrowed the aircraft from the Cuban government. He didn’t know a single word in English, he said. But he was escaping Cuba for freedom.

As explained in an extensive piece appeared on The Ledger, Perez, a former Cuban Air Force pilot has received a lot of attention since his escape and daring flight back to Cuba to rescue his family. He even wrote a book about his journey in 1994.

His friends called his daring rescue a suicide mission. He was risking his life and the lives of his wife and two sons, but he said it was worth it because they were pursuing their dreams.

While serving in the Cuban Air Force, Perez earned a scholarship to attend flight school in the Soviet Union, where he learned to fly a small Czechoslovakian Aero L-29 Delfin two-seat jet trainer and a MiG-21. He was part of the Cuban forces sent to Angola to support that country’s Marxist government.

He deployed a second time to the Soviet Union and then he and his family finally returned to Cuba where he was assigned to Santa Clara Air Base, about 165 miles east of Havana.

What he found was a country littered with propaganda and so oppressed by the government that his family knew there was only one thing for him to do — try to escape.

From Cuba to Key West

So, on Mar. 20, 1991, Perez said goodbye to his wife, Victoria, promising to return for her and their two sons. She had to pretend that she knew nothing of Perez’s escape plan. She prayed that her husband would make it to the US and to freedom.

During a training mission that day, Perez flew the MiG-23 from Cuba to Key West. When he finally landed undetected by American radar, speaking in Spanish, he told the pilot who met him on the ground that he was seeking political asylum.

Orestes Lorenzo Perez’s MiG-23 at NAS Key West

Perez said once the pilot understood, they shook hands and the pilot said, “Welcome to the United States.” He was immediately flown to Washington, DC, for a briefing and to receive paperwork. Once he was granted political asylum, he started campaigning to get his family out of Cuba. His wife and two sons were issued US visas, but the Cuban government wouldn’t let them leave.

Perez said the government put surveillance on them. His family lived under constant watch for 21 months, while Perez campaigned across the US to try to gain their freedom, he said.

Then-President George H. W. Bush directed a speech to the Cuban government, asking Fidel Castro to let Perez’s family go. But Castro refused so Perez had to think of a better plan. The only way to rescue them would be to fly back in an airplane.

Through a human rights organization founded by a Cuban political prisoner, called the Valladares Foundation, Perez learned that a 1961 Cessna 310 was for sale. With help from a donation the foundation agreed to pay the $30,000 to purchase it for his rescue attempt.

Cuban Air Force MiG-23 Pilot Who Defected to the US Brings His Family to America

Although he took flying lessons and received his pilot license in Virginia, he had very little experience flying the Cessna before his rescue attempt. Perez had only landed the small plane once, with a co-pilot.

But at exactly 5:07 p.m. on Dec. 19, 1992, Perez left from the Florida Keys, flying low across the ocean. His wife was given a note to meet him at a location about 165 miles from her home in Havana. Perez didn’t know whether she would be there with the boys, or if he would make it to the spot before the Cuban government saw him, but he had to try.

Flying less than 100 feet above the ocean, Perez came over cliffs on the Cuban coastline and saw his wife and sons wearing bright orange T-shirts, just as he had asked them to do. Perez landed the Cessna about 10 yards from a pickup truck, turned the plane around, hurried his family inside and flew away.

When he landed in Marathon less than two hours later, he felt a sense of relief. Perez is one of only a handful of Cuban military pilots to defect to the US during the Cold War. Perez and his family became all American citizens.

The MiG-23 was returned to Cuba shortly after Perez gained political asylum and the Cessna was destroyed in a hurricane.

Orestes Lorenzo Perez after landing at NAS Key West

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SR-71 was safe to fly in and around enemy territory 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The SR-71 was safer than you thought It was. It could not have been shot down by either surface-to-air missiles or jet fighter interceptions, if this airframe was flying normally . The SR-71 was never in danger of being shot down by the Russians. When the Russians realized this after a few tries of an attempt surface to air missile, they gave up. The Russians gave up, but other enemies were not so easily deterred Such as North Korea and Cuba continue to fire at the SR-71 without success over the years. They did not want the world to know this. The propaganda machine that ran the Soviet Union (as it was known during that time)told the people that the Americans were lazy and could be easily defeated by the Russian people, but this was not true. The only way Russia thought it could destroy an SR-71 was with an intercepter. This proved to be untrue also as an opportunity to study the MiG 25 occurred

Soviet-Russian pilot Viktor Belenko defected to Japan on September 6, 1976, in a MiG-25. He later wrote in his book MiG Pilot: The Russians had a master plan to intercept an SR-71 by positioning a MiG 25 in front of it and one below it. When the SR 71 passed, they would fire missiles..this never occurred. The Russian computers were very primitive. Victor continues by saying the MiG -25 cannot reach or catch it. Their missiles are useless above 27,000 m. The Russian missiles lack the velocity to overtake the SR 71.

American planes, in planned excursions, found it nearly impossible for the F-14s and F-15s to lock on to the SR-71. They certainly tried. Eagle bait exercises were flown at Nellis Air Force Base training area in Nevada. Tomcat F 14 excursions occurred over the Pacific Ocean. The SR 71 crews stack the deck to make it easy for a simulated kill. The fighter pilots knew when, where, and how fast they would be going, and if that wasn’t enough, they turned off their DEF system. ( electrical defense ) Then, we had the SR 71s painted with white stripes on the bottom of the fuselage. After all that, they told us not to exceed Mach 2.8. During this exercise, they were able to listen in on each other’s radio.

The Habu’s could hear the fighter pilots say, “Da%n t#7& too late again!”

As the daughter of a Habu, I am extremely grateful that they could not shoot it down.

Written by Linda Sheffield Miller

My source “Flying the SR 71 Blackbird” by Rich Graham

@Habubrats71 via Twitter

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Ahem…

dear anon,

You want my 'opinions' on abortion? Very well

How about I give you my opinions on Life first?

The little 'being' that appears and grows in this belly is a Life It is a separate Life, not some bullshit term like zygote, fetus, clump of cells, etc The Life that grows in her tummy is a separate Life, viable and meaningful from the time of its conception. Conception is that time a life is created, the moment a male's most dominant sperm pierces the wall of the egg and inseminates it. From that moment, it has been scientifically proven, by experts who are not on any special interest's payroll, that God's light and imprint is present in that Life, and will be for all eternity Do you understand me— God, our creator, a very real entity whom I know same as I know the Devil, is factually present and involved This cannot be undone by Yuval Noah Harari or Bill Gates or Marina Abramović or Hillary Clinton, or anyone else, regardless of their claims

Now, on to the abortion part. There are three reasons for abortion:

Rape/incest

The evidentiary and factual presence of life threatening birth defects in the infant

The evidentiary and factual possibility of harm to the mother if the pregnancy is seen thru to delivery

The above three are factually far, far fewer in occurrence that we are led to believe. The evidentiary fact of the matter is that our society has been grifted into the belief that abortion is a form of birth control, and the term after the fact is disrespectfully not even used anymore.

I have been on Earth for over nineteen centuries, and I have seen the aristocracy grift the commoners into killing their children many times, and this current trend of mothers murdering their babies is not any different

… and that is exactly what is going on here; mothers being conned into murdering their babies at the behest of elites, with no recompense for doing so

There you are, anon… my 'facts' on life and abortion

…and the naked female I added is not just another sex object or toy. She is someone's daughter, very possibly someone's mate, and very possibly someone's mother, and she is to be revered whether she understands it or not. Men who understand this are to be revered as well

Image via @shumtravi … who is not involved in this post in any way. They are simply a blogger with beautiful posts of very pretty females

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Well, well *smiles not bad, nicely done; except the abortion issue goes quite a bit deeper than:

Abortions are between a female and her doctor

Kudos on the use of abortions are signifying plural

…and therein lies part of the problem

Somewhere north of 92% of abortions are birth control after the fact, and in no way fit the tight confines of the 3:

danger to the life of the mother

rape

incest (including that of a minor)

Extra Credit: massive birth defects that affect quality of life

Now, I set a little trap here so careful how you respond

Too, the only winning move is to not play the game *no name-calling allowed yo

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Too again, we all know the soberscientistlife is an idiot, and maybe even a bot

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SR-71 was safe to fly in and around enemy territory 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The SR-71 was safer than you thought It was. It could not have been shot down by either surface-to-air missiles or jet fighter interceptions, if this airframe was flying normally . The SR-71 was never in danger of being shot down by the Russians. When the Russians realized this after a few tries of an attempt surface to air missile, they gave up. The Russians gave up, but other enemies were not so easily deterred Such as North Korea and Cuba continue to fire at the SR-71 without success over the years. They did not want the world to know this. The propaganda machine that ran the Soviet Union (as it was known during that time)told the people that the Americans were lazy and could be easily defeated by the Russian people, but this was not true. The only way Russia thought it could destroy an SR-71 was with an intercepter. This proved to be untrue also as an opportunity to study the MiG 25 occurred

Soviet-Russian pilot Viktor Belenko defected to Japan on September 6, 1976, in a MiG-25. He later wrote in his book MiG Pilot: The Russians had a master plan to intercept an SR-71 by positioning a MiG 25 in front of it and one below it. When the SR 71 passed, they would fire missiles..this never occurred. The Russian computers were very primitive. Victor continues by saying the MiG -25 cannot reach or catch it. Their missiles are useless above 27,000 m. The Russian missiles lack the velocity to overtake the SR 71.

American planes, in planned excursions, found it nearly impossible for the F-14s and F-15s to lock on to the SR-71. They certainly tried. Eagle bait exercises were flown at Nellis Air Force Base training area in Nevada. Tomcat F 14 excursions occurred over the Pacific Ocean. The SR 71 crews stack the deck to make it easy for a simulated kill. The fighter pilots knew when, where, and how fast they would be going, and if that wasn’t enough, they turned off their DEF system. ( electrical defense ) Then, we had the SR 71s painted with white stripes on the bottom of the fuselage. After all that, they told us not to exceed Mach 2.8. During this exercise, they were able to listen in on each other’s radio.

The Habu’s could hear the fighter pilots say, “Da%n t#7& too late again!”

As the daughter of a Habu, I am extremely grateful that they could not shoot it down.

Written by Linda Sheffield

@Habubrats71 via X

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Tap pictures to enlarge, 👆 near the Japanese city of Hakodate, on the northern island of Hokkaido. It’s a twin-engined jet, but not the kind of short-haul airliner Hakodate is used to seeing. This huge, grey hulk sports the red stars of the Soviet Union. No one in the West has ever seen one before.

Ten years before, on August 16, 1966, for $1 million and safe passage out of the Soviet Union for his family, Munir Redfa defected to Israel. Redfa was a Christian who was having a hard time being promoted in the Soviet Union, so he agreed to start secretly, putting fuel away for his defection from the Soviet Union to defect with his MiG -21 In 1968 in a project called HAVE DOUGHNUT The Israelites sent us this, MiG-21 and we tested its abilities at Area 51

Belenko and the Fox-bat (written by Butch Sheffield )

This next part was written by my father, Colonel Richard “ Butch” Sheffield. He Directed the Reconnaissance office for Air Force operations; he started TENCAP Office at the Pentagon.

The Russians had a Mach three fighter called the “Foxbat.” For many years the Foxbat fighters had been lurking around Russian borders, waiting to take a shot at an SR-71.

One morning, as I sat at the kitchen table having breakfast and Rosie had the news on TV I saw an aircraft landing in Japan on TV. I cried out to Rosie, “That’s a Foxbat.” the USAF needed to see and inspect a Foxbat desperately it was imperative help confirm the abilities of the Soviets MiG-25. The next best thing would be to talk to one of the Foxbat pilots.

By the time I got to work, we started really early, Buck Adams, who worked for me as the SR-71 Program Element Monitor (PEM) had already been at work getting us the authority to talk to the pilot,Belenko, as the first agency and person in the Government ( Buck Adams was an SR 71 pilot)

Needless to say, every intelligence agency and intelligence officer in Washington wanted to talk to Belenko. When I heard Buck’s plan to talk first to the pilot, I wished him luck, but thought it would be impossible.

Buck made the impossible happen. He was the first person to talk to Belenko!

When people say that the Soviet Unions, MiG’s we’re a threat to the SR 71 just remember we already thoroughly check them out. We knew what they were capable of and more importantly, we knew what they couldn’t do.🇺🇸🇺🇸

Written by Linda Sheffield and Butch Sheffield.

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The United States had at least two Soviet MiGs to test at Area 51. We had both the MiG -21 and -25, so we knew what the Soviet fighters could do and not do when the SR 71 went operational in 1968 and after.

There were no surprises..

On 6 September 1976, an aircraft Mig -25 appears out of the clouds near the Japanese city of Hakodate, on the northern island of Hokkaido. It’s a twin-engined jet, but not the kind of short-haul airliner Hakodate is used to seeing. This huge, grey hulk sports the red stars of the Soviet Union. No one in the West has ever seen one before.

Ten years before, on August 16, 1966, for $1 million and safe passage out of the Soviet Union for his family, Munir Redfa defected to Israel. Redfa was a Christian who was having a hard time being promoted in the Soviet Union, so he agreed to start secretly, putting fuel away for his escape from the Soviet Union to defect with his MiG -21. In 1968 in a project called HAVE DOUGHNUT The Israelites sent us this, MiG-21 and we tested its abilities at Area 51

Belenko and the Fox-bat (written by Butch Sheffield )

This next part was written by my father, Colonel Richard “ Butch” Sheffield.

He Directed the Reconnaissance office for Air Force operations; he started TENCAP Office at the Pentagon.

The Russians had a Mach three fighter called the “Foxbat.” For many years the Foxbat fighters had been lurking around Russian borders, waiting to take a shot at an SR-71.

One morning, as I sat at the kitchen table having breakfast and Rosie had the news on TV I saw an aircraft landing in Japan on TV. I cried out to Rosie, “That’s a Foxbat.” the USAF needed to see and inspect a Foxbat desperately it was imperative that the USA confirm the abilities of the Soviets MiG-25. The next best thing would be to talk to one of the Foxbat pilots.

By the time I got to work, we started really early, Buck Adams, who worked for me as the SR-71 Program Element Monitor (PEM) had already been at work getting us the authority to talk to the pilot,Belenko, as the first agency and person in the Government ( General ) Buck Adams was an SR 71 pilot) that worked for Butch at the Pentagon.

Needless to say, every intelligence agency and intelligence officer in Washington wanted to talk to Belenko. When I heard Buck’s plan to talk first to the pilot, I wished him luck, but thought it would be impossible.

Buck made the impossible happen. He was the first person to talk to Belenko!

When people say that the Soviet Unions, MiG’s were a threat to the SR 71 just remember we already thoroughly check them out.

We knew what they were capable of and more importantly, we knew what they couldn’t do.🇺🇸🇺🇸

Written by Linda Sheffield and Butch Sheffield.

@Habubrats71 via X

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Tap pictures to enlarge,👆 near the Japanese city of Hakodate, on the northern island of Hokkaido. It’s a twin-engined jet, but not the kind of short-haul airliner Hakodate is used to seeing. This huge, grey hulk sports the red stars of the Soviet Union. No one in the West has ever seen one before.

Ten years before, on August 16, 1966, for $1 million and safe passage out of the Soviet Union for his family, Munir Redfa defected to Israel. Redfa was a Christian who was having a hard time being promoted in the Soviet Union, so he agreed to start secretly, putting fuel away for his defection from the Soviet Union to defect with his MiG -21 In 1968 in a project called HAVE DOUGHNUT The Israelites sent us this, MiG-21 and we tested its abilities at Area 51

Belenko and the Fox-bat (written by Butch Sheffield )

This next part was written by my father, Colonel Richard “ Butch” Sheffield. He Directed the Reconnaissance office for Air Force operations; he started TENCAP Office at the Pentagon.

The Russians had a Mach three fighter called the “Foxbat.” For many years the Foxbat fighters had been lurking around Russian borders, waiting to take a shot at an SR-71.

One morning, as I sat at the kitchen table having breakfast and Rosie had the news on TV I saw an aircraft landing in Japan on TV. I cried out to Rosie, “That’s a Foxbat.” the USAF needed to see and inspect a Foxbat desperately it was imperative help confirm the abilities of the Soviets MiG-25. The next best thing would be to talk to one of the Foxbat pilots.

By the time I got to work, we started really early, Buck Adams, who worked for me as the SR-71 Program Element Monitor (PEM) had already been at work getting us the authority to talk to the pilot,Belenko, as the first agency and person in the Government ( Buck Adams was an SR 71 pilot)

Needless to say, every intelligence agency and intelligence officer in Washington wanted to talk to Belenko. When I heard Buck’s plan to talk first to the pilot, I wished him luck, but thought it would be impossible.

Buck made the impossible happen. He was the first person to talk to Belenko!

When people say that the Soviet Unions, MiG’s we’re a threat to the SR 71 just remember we already thoroughly check them out. We knew what they were capable of and more importantly, we knew what they couldn’t do.🇺🇸🇺🇸

Written by Linda Sheffield and Butch Sheffield.