you can not same about his books about the MiG-23, MiG-31, Su-24 and Tu-160 even his books about the MiG-29 and Su-27
All Yefim Gordon books are published with poor photo material.
Welll….it is about before 1990 photos.
Old TASS,APN,Novosty photos, that were published many times in Russian publications (and most of them were published on the West in the 80s also) are NOT interesting, are NOT informative.
An author with YG background and connections must to research better photos from Cold-War era.
MiG-21:
Where are the photos(good quality, never before published) of SovietAF MiG-21F-13, MiG-21SMT, MiG-21R ?
Colour photos of SovietAF camouflaged(or not) 21s from “combat-units” ?
SovietAF 21s with interesting weapon configurations, with bombs and so on…
MiG-23:
Photos SovietAF MiG-23MS -23S -23BN in color ?
Photos of 23s in QRA with weapons, -23 -27 with Nuke and other rare weapon config., -23M in color…. ?
And so on with other books…..
These good photos are available, but these are really expensive pics.
For example, a nice, colour, camouflaged SovietAF MiG-21SMT slide is more than 2000 Dollars for publication.
All of these and hundreds of more are in my private collection.
I was airframe-engine technic on MiG-21, Su-17 in the 70s 80s.
The photographing was prohibited, but I have a lot of photos…..and my friends have too.
I know many photographers, pilots in Russia, who has really good pics from those times.
I think, Yefim Gordon knows these people too….
But YG(or his publisher) do not want to pay the price for the really good photos.
Because, you buy these books without good pics…
It is so simple.
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