re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

#ISIS militants have 3 war planes & are training to fly them, a Syrian opposition group says.

Vietnam had the third-largest air force in the world for a time after the U.S. departed and left many of its aircraft behind. It provided them little advantage because modern warplanes require significant numbers of maintenance hours per flight hour. They also require spare parts. There is also the fact that being a pilot doesn’t mean that you can jump into any aircraft and fly it well. Even the business of transitioning from flying one type of fighter to another type (Assuming both were built in the same country) requires hours of familiarization training.

None of those facts will prevent the usual suspects from bellowing “Obama let them have airplanes and now they’ll be bombing the U.S.!”