Does nobody appreciate classic beauty? F-16’s? Are you kidding me? They are so boring.

What about the mighty Rhino?

It’s big, powerful, ugly, and most importantly it just looks like it wants to kill you even sitting on the ramp…..

Or how about coming straight at you……:)

Awesome picture! 😮 i have to addmit that is a quit beautiful take

This is another MiG-23 picture i really enjoy
i do enjoy this one too

However i think camuflage it`s to an aircraft what make up is to a woman

for example i like this MiG-29 picture a lot
but i dislike this camuflage pattern displayed by this Polish MiG-29

Kovy,

Those M2k shots are waaay awesome 😮 . So far numero uno prize goes to you.

Regards,
USS.

The picture quality is the best i agree but personally i do not think the Mirage 2000 is the most beautiful aircraft among all the modern fighters

To see the scale of the MiG-23

Hmmm…I`ve been googling this for an hour and found this…..

NAIC donates MiG-23 to AF Museum
In 1992, a Russian unit sold the MiG to a company in Finland for display purposes only. A U.S. citizen from Florida bought the jet from the Finnish company and imported it into the country, apparently hoping to fly the aircraft in air shows. Unfortunately, he brought the aircraft’s Gsh-23L 23 mm cannon into the country illegally and lost the gun and aircraft to the U.S. government after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms seized them.
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Soviet Mig-23ML during visit at Rissala AFB, Finland, august 1978

Стоянка с МиГ-23МЛ – это визит наших в Финляндию (Куопио/Риссала ), во второй половине 70-х. На заднем плане видны МиГ-21Ф финнов. Интересно, что с этих МиГ-23МЛ сняли пилоны для ракет
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Mig-23 im Westen.

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I remember reading somewhere that those six Migs-23 were specially adapted for this international airbase visit. They removed they IRST, antennas, changed the nose cone,…etc. to disorientate aviation speciallists in the west. 😮

That MiG-23 really looks weird i do not information about it but it seems it has not the normal radome, it looks like a total mismatch

No, you misunderstood me, this is trully remarkable photo serie of the Su-27 taken supposedly somewhere at the Groom test range during the RED FLAG excercises in 2004. But what amaze me most is that you folks believe that pictures were taken in Nevada, regardless how reliable the source is. Not to mention that similar webpages talk about UFOs and other crap. The really strange thing about it is that during RED FLAG excercises there are hundreds of uninvited quests spotting aircrafts and bringing thousands of F-15, F-16, A-6, C-130…. pictures but no one ever spotted the Su-27 near. Except this one rare ocasion taken at a distance of unbelievable 14 miles=22.5km . Geeez…..have you ever been spotting airplanes? How would you take a picture of something you have no chance to see and hear. The probability to take these pictures is equal to a miracle or it is a simple fake. Actually, I think those pictures were taken on an airshow with a cheap 35mm slide camera, then scanned to internet and vualá!….we see Su-27 at a distance of 14miles… 😀 😀
For these reasons, anyone who takes these pictures as genuine evidence for existence of the Su-27 in USAF should be called a “blind” believer.

Martinez

I do not know about the authenticity of the pictures, it seems a Flanker, i agree with your point, but i do not think the Americans will hide a Su-27, they have flown it, fought it in mock combat so many times already that i find ilogic the statement that they keep it secret, i further agree with you because it is unlikely that a werbpage that talks about UFOs is the most reliable source nevertheless i do not think it is an impossibility they have one.

The main weakness i see in the position the US has one is simply the reports are basicly rumours or internet gossip and legends nothing concrete.

Since the MiG-29 is easily displayed in US museums i guess these weakens even further such reports.

what you’ve been smoking Steve??? 😀

For sure, non of them were wired for nukes!!

Buddy, are there any photos of Migs your friend has been selling, I`d like to see them, thanks a lot!!

That is a nice comparison, although it needs further investigation…thanks
What you think of this?
This plane was spotted October 12, 2004, between the first and second session of Red Flag. Based on the size of the image, the plane is about 14 miles away. The top image is as the plane appeared on the color slide film, while the bottom image is the “red” channel (which turns the blue sky black) converted to gray scale.

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The aircraft seems a Su-27 and i could say it is a Su-27 but what i do not understadn why you think right away it is an american one perhaps is russian or Ukranian

There is a need for secrecy in this cases also for protecting the (non-US) individuals involved. I don’t believe the FSB would send a chocolate box to the middle men from Ukraine or Belarus involved in the Su-27 business.
Think abouit the “Have Doughnut” program (MiG-21F-13 evaluation), which took place in 1968. Almost everything is declassified about it, EXCEPT the source of the MiG (rumored to be Indonesia or Israel)

Please the cold war is over and the MiG-29, F-15 and Su-27 are old enough to have many export restrictions eliminated, see even Pakistan can get F-16s and remeber that China can get a hand on those F-16s