Re: [GZG] [Real World] Russian Mig 29 shoots down Georgian UAV

[Phillip Atcliffe <atcliffe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian1 wrote:

For those who consider the US not to be a possible, remember there are several US airbases within 400 miles (the range of a good ASM) so their CAP patrols would fly this far out.
  

In Russian/Georgian airspace? =-O    Boy, wouldn't NATO have loved to do that during the Cold War? :-)

My knowledge of "Russia" is rather old - I was taught that it was everything (as a very rough guide) East of Poland, North of Afghanistan 
and West of China.  Since when was Georgia a seperate country.  Wasn't Stalin Georgian?
  

Yep, he was, though he became more of a Soviet "patriot" than anything else. And that's the point: when the USSR broke up, all the individual "Republics" became what they in theory always were: separate nations -- ones that had "agreed" to be part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A lot of them came together to form the Commonwealth of Independent States, but quite a few refused to join, Georgia being one of them IIRC. Uncle Joe may have been Georgian by birth, but many of his countrymen jumped at the chance to get out from under Moscow, just as the Baltic states did -- and others in bith the east and west of the old USSR.

What ever happened to the CIS, anyway? You never hear about it any more.

Phil

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