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“I worked hard to get the chance to kill people with drones” - Barack Obama

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  • He also added the ones that were any good were also too by the book with no freedom to operate independently based on the mission.

    There’s probably a grain of truth to this, apparently the Americans and Soviets alike were shocked at how effective North Vietnamese pilots were and both established advanced air combat schools to try and teach their pilots similar tactics (Top Gun in America and the 1521st Aviation Base in Turkmenistan for the Soviets).

    I could be wrong but the thing about them training pilots wrong deliberately to stop them defecting sounds like bs in my opinion (surely if Soviet military morale was that bad they’d be more worried about whole ships, submarines or military units regularly trying to cross over?), reminds me of nowadays where people go on about Chinese pilots being rigged up with bomb collars so they can’t defect, just seems incredibly made up.