> Why is that shocking? It would be the case no matter how they do as a country From the review that I cited and you didn't bother to read: >A little over a d

> Why is that shocking? It would be the case no matter how they do as a country From the review that I cited and you didn't bother to read: >A little over a decade later and that same South African Air Force was no longer able to fly. It wasn’t for lack of planes: new ones were procured from European arms manufacturers in an astonishingly expensive and legendarily corrupt deal. But once purchased the planes rotted from lack of maintenance and languished in hangers for lack of anybody able to fly them. Most of the qualified pilots and technicians had been purged, and most of the remainder had resigned. The air force did technically still have pilots, after all it would be a bit embarrassing not to, but those pilots were chosen for patronage reasons and didn’t technically have any idea how to fly a fighter jet. There's more, if you care to actually read it.