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Any chance this was just simply lifted from here? I'm not sure what to make of this, as "First MiG behind the Iron Curtain" seems like it belongs more on a timeline, or list of events, or, the info should be in the articles about the person(s) involved. heqs 23:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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This is terribly organized. I don't think there's a single instance of two prose sentences coming together to form even the smallest of logical paragraphs. It's just a list of dates and events. If this is going to be kept at all, it needs to have the title changed, as it obviously does not represent only the first MiG, but many. And it needs a serious overhaul of the format in which this information is presented. LordAmeth 09:22, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly inaccurate information

"In July 1988, two Syrian pilots defected with their MiG-29's to Turkey.": I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable Turkish military aviation enthusiast with good connections to Turkish Air Force, and I have never, ever heard of this. An operational Mig-29 was still largely a mystery for NATO and the US, and it would have been big news if a Syrian Mig-29 was flown to Turkey. Nobody in the Turkish Air Force seems to recall anything like this ever happening, either.

Heavily censored and totally one-sided article.

This article pretends only commie pilots defected to the west. This is not true, as there were cases in the opposite direction! I know of at least one, where an american a/c repair technician stationed in Turkey was hired by the KGB on an offer of 1 million dollars. He climbed into his F-16 and tried to take it to the USSR, but crashed and exploded on take-off due to incompetence in flying the electric jet. 82.131.210.162 (talk) 14:40, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The title suggests defections by either side. Yet the summary and the examples are all of Communists defecting to the West - what about the counter traffic?

Cuban defenctions

A cuban or Angolan pilot defected in a MiG-21 via Namibia to S. Africa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.226.104.225 (talk) 23:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would be nice to get Taiwan rewards numbers in dollars, not gold

I think that amounts of money in taels or kg of gold don't make much sense. How is the reader supposed to know what was the price of gold back then? It would have been nicer to get the number in contemporary or inflation-adjusted dollars. 76.24.104.52 (talk) 03:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Libyan defection shouldn't be here

The Libyan pilot defection in February 2011 has pretty much nothing to do with the Cold War, that's why I will delete this part. I hope it it will be later included in a fresher article about post cold war defection. For the record here is what's got to go :

"* On 21 February 2011, two Libyan Air Force colonels landed their Mirage F1 fighter jets at Malta International Airport during the 2011 Libyan protests. They defected after refusing to follow an order to fire their rockets upon Libyan protesters in Tripoli."

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 I think that amounts of money in taels or kg of gold don't make much sense. How is the reader supposed to know what was the price of gold back then? It would have been nicer to get the number in contemporary or inflation-adjusted dollars. [[Special:Contributions/76.24.104.52|76.24.104.52]] ([[User talk:76.24.104.52|talk]]) 03:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
+== 2011 Libyan defection shouldn't be here  ==
+The Libyan pilot defection in February 2011 has pretty much nothing to do with the Cold War, that's why I will delete this part. I hope it it will be later included in a fresher article about post cold war defection. For the record here is what's got to go :
+"* On 21 February 2011, two [[Libyan Air Force]] colonels landed their [[Dassault Mirage F1|Mirage F1]] fighter jets at [[Malta International Airport]] during the [[2011 Libyan protests]]. They defected after refusing to follow an order to fire their [[SNEB|rockets]] upon Libyan protesters in [[Tripoli]]."