It’s difficult to train pilots.
Here s What You Need To Remember: It’s possible, Cooper wrote, that the SyAAF overhauled the surviving planes and returned them to regular service. The Syrian air arm has made a concerted effort to upgrade dozens of surviving L-39s, subsequently deploying them for nighttime air raids
Between 2013 and 2017 a small number of L-39 light attack jets at a Syrian air force base east of Aleppo changed hands several times. Syrian rebels captured them from the Syrian air force. Then Islamic State militants seized the planes from the rebels. Finally, forces loyal to the Syrian regime recaptured the L-39s.
A South China Sea Missile War Would Change Asia Forever
China in recent years has occupied several disputed islands in the China Seas, dredged their endangered coral reefs and built atop them sprawling airfields and barracks and installations for cruise missiles and air-defense systems.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The DF-26 could be vulnerable to the latest American defenses. The U.S. Navy s SM-6 interceptor missile theoretically is capable of hitting a DF-26 in two phases of its flight shortly after launch, as the Chinese missile is climbing and gaining speed, and then again in the DF-26 s terminal phase, as it arcs down toward its target.