The rest of the comments below pertain to the MiG-21 and MiG-17 exploitation projects at Area 51 during Projects HAVE DOUGHNUT, HAVE DRILL, and HAVE FERRY. Sullivan (a lot of F-106 experience, solid Mach 2 experience and retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general), who flew the CIA’s Mach-3 A-12 at Area 51 during Project OXCART and over SEA during Operation BLACKSHIELD, was an F-106 pilot. "TD" Barnes, Member Groom Lake Special Projects Team (The MIGS of Area 51)įrom my book MiG's Over Nevada I grabbed the following excerpts regarding our (Groom Lake Special Projects Team) using the F-106 for various projects at Area 51 during the facility’s CIA era.Īs you will see below, the F-106 played a role in the Mach-3 YF-12 Project Keylock. Radar warning and ECM equipment into the F-106", future mods the F-106 did receive.īy Thornton D. One of the specific recommendations for the F-106 during the evaluation of this project by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center was to "Expedite fitting the internal gun, redesigned canopy, Have Drill/Have Ferry were the names of a Defense Intelligence Agency project whose purpose was to evaluate and exploit a MiG-17 "Fresno" redesignated as the "YF-114C".į-106's of the 94 FIS Selfridge AFB flew 13 missions participating in the HAVE DRILL, and HAVE FERRY projects. When Israel's Mossad Stole A Iraqi MIG-21: Story of Munir Redfa Israel Military Intelligence Stealing a Soviet MiG 1966 The Have Doughnut tests were conducted at Area 51. The inability of the Navy to disseminate the results of this highly classified project to combat pilots was part of the impetus to create the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School. The project's name "Doughnut" came from the doughnut shaped sight reticle on the F-4 Phantom's canopy used to aim at the opposing aircraft. The word `Have’ in the project name(s) marked the project as belonging to AFSC, with the aircraft bearing US designations prefixed by YF. In this multi-service project, Air Force and United States Navy pilots evaluated the MiG-21, redesignated as the "YF-110", in a variety of situations. The tests with the MIG-21 during Have Doughnut were the responsibility of the Foreign Technology Division of the then Air Force Systems Command (AFSC), later Air Force Material Command (AFMC). Israel and the United States were able to study the design of the plane. Munir Redfa flew the MIG to Israel during a training flight landing at an air base in Israel. The operation began in mid-1963 and ended on August 16, 1966, when an Iraqi Air Force MiG-21, flown by defector Iraqi Air Force pilot Capt. They're goal was the acquisition of a Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, the most advanced fighter plane at that time. Israel acquired the aircraft on Augin Operation Diamond, an operation undertaken by the Israeli Mossad Intelligence Agency. Have Doughnut was the name of a Defense Intelligence Agency project whose purpose was to evaluate and exploit a MiG-21 "Fishbed-E" that the United States Air Force acquired in 1967 from Israel.
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