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 Ogaden war was the "begginning of the end" for Somalia.......in 1988 they collapsed and never come back, only pirates, Al Qaeda, Daesh, "Blackhawk Down".........very sad.

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

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

Every time i see there's a new Showtime vid i immediately click and watch it! And i am never disappointed!

Another gem of a video featuring the F-5 ...,one of my favourite fighters of all time....seeing as its nearly christmas let me say that you truly are the gift that keeps giving.🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

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

That's a mistake for this moment that DCS has not made the MIG-17, because it's a fantastic story that this pilot had his first victories, it will be an intersting video.

Sunday in the morning here in Mexico, a (big) cup of coffee, a donut and a new Showtime112 video. What could be better than this? Thanks man, I really enjoy these videos 👍

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?

Good video on a small and mostly forgotten war.

Definitely one of the better if not the best channel on military history/jet fighters on KZfaq!

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

11 years in Mogadishu prison. Sounds terrible.

Well well well... What a nice video to watch while I wait for paint to dry on my 1/72 scale model f-5a Ethiopian Air Force ;) In all seriousness, RIP General Tefera. I recently found a photo of him receiving a medal from Raul Castro following the release from Somalia, which is quite special.

Again a very good video about a small war between two mostly unknown countries. I really like these kinds of vids as everyone knows about the Vietnam, Korean, etc wars but it seems like these Cold War rivalries between small countries are forgotten. The shot at 06:30 must have been pretty lucky at such a high angle, I can barely hit anything without radar guidance in the Mig21/F5.

Great history showtime. Please do the dogfight between ROCAF p-47 and PLAAF mig 15 in 1954 during Taiwan Straits war.

82ND AIRBORNE Good Morning!! A fresh start for some Sunday binge Action!! YEEEEEHAW!!

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

Thank you for providing this valuable history lesson.

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

The subsonic diminutive MiG17 was a pain in the ass even for F4s over the Nam, because it was used the way it was supposed to, in conjunction with GCI, SA2s and enough AAA hiding in the woods to change the average special weight of the atmosphere over the north Vietnam for those important few minutes... specially in modern warfare you don't get to cherry pick your weapon systems, they come in full packages and with their own doctrines, third world nations usually acquired and deployed their equipment more with a rule of coolness in mind, they would look good on a parade day but when pushing came to shove they usually produced lackluster results... just like every other time in history, soldiers do what soldiers do, fight hard and die well, but politicians and decision makers lose their wars before they even start them, in some cases, the cost becomes the entire country, like the story of Somalia...

It's amazing how you simulate this. It's so real!

Very interesting bit of history Showtime, thanks for the great video.

A super video of yours as always. The perfect way to end a weekend 👍

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

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

Loved the video! Keep it up man!

Great video. I love your calm narration.

I would call him an ace. The MiG-21s should be considered maneuvre kills.

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

Very nice video thank you very much

Awesome content.

great mini documentary, very interesting 👍

Now I want you to tell about air battle on Yom Kippur war

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Great video 👍

Imagine 11 yrs in captivity in Mogadishu? 😱

As far as quality over quantity is concerned someone once said to me "who will survive?...the poorly camouflged sniper or the expertly camouflaged solder who is,at best a average rifleman".....my reply was "if you are perfectly camouflaged for any given situation then your skills with the rifle are irrelevant as your enemy WONT see you or know you are even there in the first place....after all thats the whole reason for using camouflage in the first place"

good insight! 💪

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 👍

Outstanding.

Very nice

I don't know where you are from but youtube always put name and description in my language. Great job on videos

What a story . . And off course the dogfights . .

2:43 "Quality should be the priority"... Well, that's exactly what the Germans thought in WW2 when they made tanks such as Tiger and Panther... And they faced scores of Shermans and T-34s... How did it end? When you have so few (planes, in this case) and you lose even one, that is a massive blow...

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

Oh i love this one thanks what’s the name of the pilot to google it up and know more

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

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

1:42 you mention MiG-17s and MiG-21s, but the footage shows MiG-19s.

how do i get this module

82ND AIRBORNE Question...do any reports exist of damage or injury due to dropping of tanks??

Did the F5 have an afterburner?

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

"quality should always be preferred over quantity" -- this is true if you are importing the weapons and you don't have strategic death to keep manufacturing the weapon during war. But if you are producing the weapon and if your infrastructure can keep producing the weapon while your country is in an ongoing war. Then quantity wins over quality as we can see for USSR/ Russia have huge strategic depth and resources that let them produce thousands and thousands of T34/85 tanks and crush a much superior tank obviously with higher loss. That used to be a problem as we used to lose our soldiers but with the advent of drones and autonomous weapon systems clearly, quantity is much more important than quality. Obviously, a balance need to be maintained even if the balance is not 50:50

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

Вообще странная тактика у пилотов МиГов. МиГ мог свободно уклониться от боя, занять более выгодную позицию имея преимущество в скорости и скороподъёмности. МиГ уступали только в маневревнности и то не критично

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

1:43-2:12 Those shown at this time are MiG-19s

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

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

@6:26, *The pilot is unconscious*.

First! 😊

So he had a parachute in the colours of the Irish flag.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Military channel dogfights?😳 Jman

Second :)

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.

Nothing can out turn and burn an F-5 in a dog fight, that's one maneuverable little hot rod

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

America is best military after the Taliban !

The subsonic diminutive MiG17 was a pain in the ass even for F4s over the Nam, because it was used the way it was supposed to, in conjunction with GCI, SA2s and enough AAA hiding in the woods to change the average special weight of the atmosphere over the north Vietnam for those important few minutes... specially in modern warfare you don't get to cherry pick your weapon systems, they come in full packages and with their own doctrines, third world nations usually acquired and deployed their equipment more with a rule of coolness in mind, they would look good on a parade day but when pushing came to shove they usually produced lackluster results... just like every other time in history, soldiers do what soldiers do, fight hard and die well, but politicians and decision makers lose their wars before they even start them, in some cases, the cost becomes the entire country, like the story of Somalia...