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Oneironaut

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11. I read once that the Soviets would loop bombers around in air shows

Reply to Adrahil (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 02:34 PM

Feb 2019

to make it look like they had an endless array of bombers. In reality, it was just the same bombers over and over. The US didn’t realize this, and would panic spend to try and match the Soviets vast, nonexistent arsenal.

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