Albania selling off their Migs

[Check 6]

Reuters/MSNBC article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9883821/)

TIRANA, Albania - Albania’s antiquated air force of Soviet-designed MiG aircraft, which killed 35 Albanian pilots but no enemies, is finally on its way to the museum and the scrapheap, the armed forces chief said on Tuesday.

“If anyone wants to buy them, they are welcome,” Gen. Pellumb Qazimi told Reuters. Some potential Western buyers “wanted to turn them into bars,” he said.

[RileyDove]

I guess these are some kind of transports? I cannot imagine happy hour in a Mig17 cockpit being much fun!

[ORAC]

One presumes he means scrap metal bars. :hmm:

Bit harsh though. Quite a few western aircraft with similar ratios, Lightning to name but one.....

[Onan the Clumsy]

...except for the Albanians, it was thirty five...each

[On_The_Top_Bunk]

At least their defence ministry has the correct ideas. Get rid of the pointy things. :E

For the Albanian military, the general said, the future lies in a fleet of modern helicopters able to “interact with the planes of the (NATO) alliance we want to join.”

[Gainesy]

a fleet of modern helicopters

Hmm, Wessex might be a step up for them, any in storage?