Cuando el Capitalismo usó armas de la URSS: El caso del Su-22 peruano

Learn the details of the unprecedented trade agreement with the Kremlin to acquire these variable-geometry aircraft in exchange for fishmeal, coffee, and cotton, defying the US arms embargo. This video analyzes the severe technical challenges of operating Siberian machinery in the humidity of the Amazon and the altitude of the Andes, the coexistence of Russian and American technology in the same hangars, the dramatic 1992 incident in which a Peruvian Su-22 strafed a US Air Force C-130 Hercules spy plane, and its baptism of fire in the 1995 Cenepa War against Ecuador. A direct look at one of the biggest geopolitical and military shifts in Latin America.