Have Nose Iraqi MiG 29 of the USAF - Rob Young NASIC Historian

Rob Young NASIC Historian Wright Paterson Air Force Base Ohio United States 1 p.
National Air and Space Intelligence Center
The Have Nose project took place in the last days of the operation desert storm on 9 March 1991. A team of the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center landed at Jalibah Air Base, Iraq, with the goal of collecting enemy equipment and bringing it home for analysis. Among the enemy equipment there were three MiG-29, soviet built jet fighters, in verious stages of destruction. The team decided to recover the intact nose of one of the scorched examples to closely study one piece of state of the art soviet technology.