Major
Igor Ivanovich was tired of war. It had been a long hard battle to drive
out the German invaders, but it was clear to him that the problem in the Korean
Peninsula was going to escalate. If there was to be a new war, he reasoned,
then it would have to be fought with new weapons, not with those they had used
in the great patriotic war. Having being fortunate enough to test the new Kurt
Tankski Ta 183 from the Mikosrki Design Bureau, he was convinced that this
was the aircraft that was needed.
In
a secret mission, Major Ivanovich and the Mikorski team set out to test the new
Tankski in combat, even though it was still wearing its high visibility day-glo
orange trial markings. As fortune would have it, the weather was bad, as it
inevitably was during the harsh winter, and Major Ivanovich was able to use
the thick cloud layer to avoid drawing attention to his new aircraft.
Fortune
smiled on him, for in a gap in the clouds he spotted a pair of enemy aircraft; a
twin boom Supermarine Flitzer and a twin jet North American F-262. In a flash he
swooped down and destroyed both with his potent 30mm cannons. As the Tankski
roared into the heavens again, he could see two parachutes floating down. The
Tankski had scored 2 kills on its first outing.
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Alarmed
by this event, which was kept from the press to prevent any alarm, the
allies combined their efforts to develop the very effective NA Sabre with
extreme haste. It was clear to them that they could not rely solely on captured
technology.
Unfortunately
for Major Ivanovich and the Mikosrki team, the supreme Soviet leader was
extremely displeased that they were using subversive technology from the
former invaders, and not patriotic home grown efforts. The plane was destroyed,
and Major Ivanovich and the Mikosrki team languished in a Siberian labour
camp, after which they were all declared officially insane.
As
such, no record exists of this remarkable feat which served to change the face
of modern aerial warfare.
Sinuhe
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