The Story of the Top African Jet Fighter Ace And His Last Kill

Did the F5 have an afterburner?

Loved the video! Keep it up man!

Just another proxy war between the USA and USSR. Our equipment versus theirs.

Black Americans think they are going to move to Afika and build a Wakanda. 😂 The natives can’t get along and neither can the ones here in the US.

Excellent presentation of this amazing aviator. Thanks for all you do. 🎩♠️🎱🎯🇺🇲🏁🎯🇺🇦🔱💮🌸🏵️🌼🏴‍☠️🏹

Excellent video. The back story of the Ethiopian pilot was very interesting.

Ogaden war is an interesting little conflict,maybe one day you can do a video about 1989 romanian revolution dogfights and friendly fire incidents

If you read the primary sources all the kills were accidents that Wikipedia recorded as kills.
This video is fake, but it's fine, all the mig 21s collided and crashed.

Full support to Ethiopia 🇪🇹 ❤️ from India 🇮🇳 against Somalia

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I never heard about this war and its dogfights. Thanks for sharing

Great video like always. Will we see Peter Tankink who shot down a Mig-29 over Kosovo during 'Allied Force', and who is the only dutch F-16 pilot to do so?

Imagine 11 yrs in captivity in Mogadishu? 😱

Legesse kills 5 Mig 21 and 2 Mig17.
Mig 17 kills by aim9. Mig 21 , two by 20mm guns ,the other by aim9. And two other Mig 21 collided themselves during dogfight with his F5E

good insight!
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Watching these videos makes me buy the books you have linked. Tom Cooper makes really good books.

Here is a story I heard from a Hungarian MiG-21 pilot. When he and his comrades were in the Soviet Union for fighter training in the early 1970s, the Soviet instructors told them how lucky they were for working with East Europeans. Those who worked with African students, mostly Somalians at the time, were at constant danger. Most Africans never even saw an aircraft before, and they were usually sent to fighter pilot training only because they were related to some important local politician, warlord or tribesman. Some of them had to be sent away because they couldn't even read and write.

The rest weren't really pilot material either. They already arrived in the Soviet Union by aircraft, and some spent the entire trip cowering in fear. The instructors took them for an acclimatization flight in two-seat MiG-21U. They gave them strict instructions not to touch anything in the cockpit, no matter what happens. Due to regulations they still received ejection training. For many of them, it was simplified to this: "if there is very big trouble, pull this cord."

Guess what, as soon as the MiG-21U took off, one of these prospective Black Barons freaked out and pulled it. Early Soviet ejection seats did not yet have a mechanism to automatically pull the pilots' limbs back, so the Soviet pilot was just blasted out of the cockpit, but his legs on the pedals and his hand still grabbing the yoke stayed there. He bled out on his parachute. I don't know about the talented student's further fate, but I must assume he didn't fare much better either.

Following that day, Soviet training units refused to accept any further students from "developing countries" unless they passed the same proficiency tests as Warsaw Pact pilot candidates. Fortunately the Soviet government listened and there were no further similar "accidents".

The Russians ended up with a few F-5s post Vietnam. They flew them against MiG-21s and they were highly impressed! Seems in ACM’ing they believed the little F-5 to be superior 👍

You really don't realize how many countries have a air force that. Actually went to action

Outstanding.

Very nice

Interesting Thanks for posting...heard the MiG 21 doesn't like to go slow...it starts to wobble... exploit this to force over shoot ?

Thank you for providing this valuable history lesson.

Great video 👍

I believe it was a South African who was the top African fighter ace... his name was Pat Pattle.

Good video on a small and mostly forgotten war.

En esa guerra se logró la verdadera superioridad aérea con la participación cubana, los piloto cubanos y los somalíes se firmaban en la URSS, y al saber estos últimos que se iban a enfrentar a los cubanos, se negaron a volar, pues estaban conscientes de la superioridad de sus contrarios

Cuando un etíope le recuerda la derrota del Ogaden a un somalo, este le responde que no fué una batalla en zuhali,

America is best military after the Taliban !

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you should make video on egyptiam air force as with in it during the wars with icsraeil you would find real africam aces

What a great video it's always interesting to see other airforces use of established Warplanes

What was he doing in the USA when he passed away ????

You need to change the title of this video. Top African ace is Tom Pattle with 41 kills during WW2!

"developed" countries prosper on the sale of weapons which at least whine because "migrants" are trying to save their skins supposedly invading,
this world is pretty wonderful

Military channel dogfights?😳


Jman

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Very interesting and I learned a lot of wars we do not really care about. What a pilot! Thank you.

great mini documentary, very interesting 👍

Very nice video thank you very much

Awesome content.

Proud of Ethiopian aircraft /airforce ❤❤❤❤

Ethiopian history on the field of war is beyond the word❤❤❤❤❤❤

Ethiopian is among the leading powerful Jet fighter in the world