To compensate for my error there, here are some more pics I’ve managed to dig up:
The civilian dressed Colonel General Vladimir Sergeevitsj Mikhailov helps his wife out of the Candid transport infront of the half-confused RNoAF brigadegeneral Stein Erik Nodeland.
The RNoAF chief welcomes his Russian counterpart.
This was actually the first time Russian jets ever touched Norwegian soil.
Even if its normally strictly forbidden to take photos or films of Norwegian Armed Forces installations, the Russians seems to be allowed to do so…
This formation was flown over the city twice.
Orginally, the Flankers were supposed to do a small demo over the city a couple of days after they landed, but were not allowed to do so because of security reasons. Apperantly, they were not in good enough state to be allowed to fly demos in Norwegian air space according to our autorities.
Glad you enjoyed the pics.
Here are some more (not as sexeh as the other two, though):
And here are some I’ve taken myself with a crappy 3x zoom compact digital camera:
CHECK OUT THE SIZE DIFERENCE ON THESE TWO FIGHTERS! 😮
PS: I’ve censored them acording to the Norwegian Armed Forces laws.
That Flanker with the code ’08 Red’ visited my hometown (Bodø, Norway) one or two years ago.
Here it is along the other Russian planes (Four Flankers and one Candid visited us), beeing escorted by RNoAF F-16s.
What kind of photos ??? , The photos of Granit is quite rare , compared to those of the others that we see , I doubt they would relase any photos of Improved Granit or what ever it is. It would be nice to know about the specs though from Official sources.
Isn’t this the SS-N-19 Shipwreck (Granit)?
Altough its from an Oscar II, I guess it would be pretty similar to the ones on the Kirovs.
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