This sounds wildly implausible, or at least very exaggerated.
I’ve worked on jets. If you put them in pieces, you are talking months (at least 3-6), to put them back together. Modern jets aren’t Legos. They are very complex machines that require testing and fine tuning.
Most flight surface controls and engines parts have flight hour limits that are painstakingly logged so preventative maintenance maximizes service lifetime. When we transferred jets, we also delivered their maintenance history.
When we mothball aircraft, we only remove certain components and basically seal it up. To take it out of mothball and reassemble it, under normal circumstances, you are talking 8 months.
Maybe they surreptitiously transferred aircraft to Ukraine, I can believe that. But if they broke them down into individual parts and said, “Here you go!”, the proper response would be, “Go fuck yourself.”
I imagine this story started out one way and has just been embellished each telling.
Maybe they just rolled the jets there, took the hubcaps of the fuel inlet off of every one of them (so that they are “disassembled”) and then let ukraine know.
So still technically correct and within international arms trade law, but the jets got through without needing too much reassembly.
Maybe put some clingwrap or something over the inlet so moisture doesn’t get in.
This reminds me of the beginning of lend lease. Where the us and Canada built a few air strips in the middle of nowhere that just happened to straddle the border.
American factory pilot would fly brand new fighter plane and land carefully on the neutral American side of the runway and drive away.
Somehow, the now abandoned salvage property would get towed to the other side
British pilot in Dominion of Canada gets in and flies to United Kingdom.
Their game seems like it would only be a challenge for people who have never played before. If you know the game, you’re not going to fail any of the challenges which were only challenging to the Ops team because they didn’t know the rules (or that it was even a game).
They barely even lost as it was. Which makes me wonder what a game between two players/teams who understand the game would look like. My guess is that it would be like that time Data made a mockery of Kolrami at Strategema.
I’d imagine it’s meant to be played with consenting players and then the challenges inside become part of the fun. If you know there’s no risk involved then it basically just becomes a pocket dimension containing a hybrid Wipeout course/escape room
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