Former Iraqi pilots train Islamic State fighters to fly MiG jets

Robert Spencer Oct 18, 2014 at 5:04pm Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 28 Comments

Coming soon: the Islamic State Air Force. The Iraqi pilots are motivated to do this by an ideological affinity with the Islamic State. “Former Iraqi pilots train Islamic State fighters to fly MiG jets,” Associated Press, October 17, 2014:

BEIRUT — The Islamic State group is test flying, with the help of former Iraqi air force pilots, several fighter jets captured earlier from air bases belonging to the Syrian military, a Syrian activist group said Friday.

The report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Britain could not be independently confirmed, and U.S. official said they had no reports of Islamic State militants flying jets in support of their forces on the ground.

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When Israel faced the problem of a large Egyptian Air Force in 1973 they

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