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Originally Posted by jaro
Abchazia is too small to fly such an aircraft without violating somebody's airspace. You would have to constantly fly in circles. I doubt any migs were left after USSR there, they could have been left in Georgia but not Abchazia. These aircraft need fuel and ammunition too. It's not true mig29 requires almost no maintenance or is simple to fix. Slovakia had 18 of them and over time only like 5 were left operational (others had technical problems and were removed from service). If Slovakia can't fix them, I doubt Abchazia can.
I don't know why you keep advocating this excuse. It's highly probable that mig was Russian, and piloted by a Russian. Whether Russians "donated" the mig with the pilot to "serve" in Abchazia is irrelevant.
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That "MiG" really could be piloted by Russian because most people in Abchzia & S. Osetia have Russian passports that means they are Russian. NATO's radars showed that "MiG" came from airfield of Gudauta (Abchazia). Gudauta's airfield is a part of USSR's military airbase, why do you think there couldn't be left an aircraft.
Fuel and ammunition are easy to buy (the rocket was used there costs $ 200 000 that is suitable to destroy UAV estimated $4 000 000). Lifetime of such missile is over 20 years (may be it's soviet's too).
I don't know why you keep advocating Georgia. It's highly probable that "mig" (but it was even not a mig but L-39 - militaryeducational airplane) was Abchazian, and piloted by an Abchazian.