A 20-minute drive from the Las Vegas Strip is a repository for some of the most coveted military secrets of the Cold War, known to visitors as the “petting zoo”
An Air Force intelligence unit outside Las Vegas uses a collection of Soviet weaponry to teach how to recognize—and defeat—an adversary’s arms
The exact origins of some of the equipment is still shrouded in Cold War mystery of spies, gun runners and defectors. Some of the pieces were captured in war, like the Mi-24 Hind. U.S. forces scooped up the Russian-built attack helicopter from the defeated Iraqi military in the first Gulf War. After the Soviet Union collapsed and the Red Eagles were disbanded, the Air Force decided to lift the veil of secrecy over at least some of its foreign weaponry. In 1993, the Air Force declassified the Threat Training Facility, and opened it to the public in 1996.
A Russian MiG-23, whose NATO designation is Flogger. This fighter aircraft was given the nickname "Captain Carlisle" after a now-retired U.S. Air Force general.The Mi-24 Hind is a Russian-built attack helicopter that has been operated by dozens of countries including North Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The former military official said he was asked if he could “make the petting zoo’s aircraft flyable?” He said he couldn’t.
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