FourMikeEcho
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There were multiple Su-22s and Su-25s shot down in air-to-air engagements after 1985. Afghanistan Air Force did not have this equipment. These were Soviet Air Force and flown by Soviet pilots. The most well known one is Alexander Rutskoy. He was shutdown by ground fire twice in the early 80s from his Su-25. Then finally by an F-16 over Pakistan where he ejected, was captured, and then returned to the USSR.what are you talking , the only soviet plane they destroyed was an an-24 that turned out actually was defecting to Pakistan, the rest were Afghan airforce fighters(excuse me bombers and some mil-8 that even were less in number than fingers of two hand) when faced with soviet fighters thy managed to shutdown their squadron leader.
and as you admit the training on stinger was done by Americans not Pakistan Army and they come from USA inventory not Pakistan and what really changed the tide of war were those stingers. and they exactly come into Afghanistan as I explained . a corrupt senate member and his lady companion.
and i don't recall i ever talked about Iran , if you want to knew Iran stand about Russia presence in Afghanistan at the time was it has nothing to do with us, we don't care we have our own problems.
This is the most public case because he became Yelstin's VP in the 90s.
Also, you can look at stats, Soviet helicopters and Su-25s were getting shutdown by the dozens every year through the early 80s all the way up to Stingers.
You seem to be obsessed by Stingers and how they were the magic bullet that was the only reason war ended.
Stop being narrow minded and use google search to increase your knowledge: no single weapon system ended the war and Soviets progress was stalled before the Stingers. Ultimately the stingers had a role to play. But it wasn't the only thing
