Poland’s Vintage MiG Fire Sale: How Soviet Jets Became Korea’s Newest Souvenir
WARSAW—Somewhere over the Vistula, a squadron of Soviet-era MiG-29s—freshly repainted, hastily re-blessed by a nervous priest, and still faintly smelling of mothballs—is performing aerial yoga. The jets once belonged to Poland, were offered to Ukraine, got vetoed by Washington, and now, like a middle-manager’s mid-life Porsche, have been traded to South Korea for a bulk…