Hm I don’t think it is a real Iraqi Su, the picture was obviously taken after 1991 and even the Belorussians would not have been that bold to overhaul one of Saddam’s aircraft outisde Iraq. I rather think they acquired old Iraqi Su-22 parts from somewhere to refurbish/rebuild new planes. From where? Iraq I don’t think so, the planes we saw were just in too bad shape.
Could it be possible Iran instead sold some of the Iraqi Fitters, which were evacuated to Iran in 1991, to this company which then refurbished them and resold them to Angola?
This is very doubtful. The angolan overhauled Fitters are ex-slovaquian machines not iraqi, like the “6925” photo on the same page.
Why pay for import old Fitters from Iran, when Belarus inherited a lot of ex-soviet planes free of charge?
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