"Yugo Wars" sucks - it's my personal opinion - everyone who was involved somehow in those disasters feel the same way.
My late uncle was F-84G/F-86E/MiG-21F-13/MiG-21PFM/MiG-21UM(as instructor) pilot. I have his notes and I flyed couple of times with him in 21 two seater. Most memorable thing to do - just.......... I love all this in technical sense - but all other stuff sucks for me - big time.
I like military aviation very much, but I refused to be a pilot in real life, PVO (anti aircraft stuff) was my field in military.
EDIT > Yea Ghost - as you know already - my uncle was test pilot too - on Gnat's and bunch of domestic stuff like J-22 prototypes.