colleague used to say that russia was a gas station masquerading as a country. phase 1 kicked off before putin s invasion even began. when 21 u.s. energy companies were targeted including giants chevron and cheniere. russian intelligence launched so-called spear phishing attacks on pharmaceutical company. today on capitol hill lawmakers flagged concerns about russia s infiltration of elder american communication. the technology known as ff 7 which allows phones to roam from one network to another could also allow foreign actors to get into our network and intercept american calls and texts. france s largest bank has put its entire staff on high alert to russian cyberattacks today. they have also taken the unprecedented step of disconnecting their entire russia based team from the company s computer system, they say in order to protect it. bret?
The MiG-21 Keeps Getting Copied: Is Iran s Latest Version Any Good?
One of their lesser-known, and indeed less-capable airframes is a copy…of a copy. Meet the J/F-7.
Here s What You Need to Remember: These days the F-7 is relegated to a trainer aircraft for Iranian pilots. It made a slight blip in the headlines in 2018, when one of Iran’s F-7 training airframes crash-landed in the “near the city of Hassanabad in Jarqavieh Olya district, Isfahan province.”
Iran’s motley fleet of airframes includes a wide variety of antiquated aircraft, including American F-14 Tomcats, McDonell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (that have apparently seen combat in Syrian), as well as Northrop F-5 light attack jets.