SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
"Hate the traitor, love the treason."
This is pointless. If people want to believe that the F-35 is somehow at great risk of a pilot defecting with than by all means believe that. I personally am more than happy to bet with anyone that it will not happen. I will be waiting at the bar for your money.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I do have going to a bar in Darwin on ANZAC Day on my bucket list.
ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
The original question, "How many American or Western frontline fighters have defected over the decades?", refers exclusively to the fighters (not the pilots)
- 1984: An Iranian pilot defected to Iraq flying an F-4E Phantom II.
Pilot: Captain Bahram Ghena'at Pisheh
WSO: ???
Ghena'at Pisheh eliminated by a bomb in a meetibg with PJAK Agents in Turkey by Turkish minstery of Intelligence. Iran refused the body and denouced his citizenship.
WSO Killed in Crash. Body never found. He is listed as MIA by IRIAF.
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Pilot: Captain Rahman Naqib
WSO: 2Lt. Arsalan Taheri Hakim Abadi
Naqib was eleminated by oprratives from Unit 6, Army Counterintellingence Command.
Taheri Hakim Abadi ejected over Iranian border, found and rescued by Gendarmerie forces.
