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unusual facts about Project Dark Gene


Project Dark Gene

Special equipment was provided by Rockwell International and funding was largely provided by the Shah of Iran.


1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown

During the 1970s numerous incidents, probably including Project Dark Gene occurred on the Soviet-Iranian and Afghan-Iranian border, forcing the Soviets to station a regiment of MiG-23s at the Ak-Tepe AB, near the border with Afghanistan, in what was then the Turkestan Military District.


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