Turkmenistan

Some new images of rather rare stuff. The FROGFOOT is said to be a Su-25KM “Scorpion”.

Ladies and Gentlemen… Syrian Mi-14 Haze again… this time in Ukraine…:)

Left picture shows the Mi-14PS (SAR), right picture the Mi-14PL (ASW).

There are two flavours of current, tandem two-seat Flankers – Su-30MK’s.

The IAPO Su-30MK’s have foreign avionics, canards, Thrust Vectoring Control (TVC) engines and extended chord rudders.

The KnAAPO Su-30MK’s have mainly Russian avionics (with reportedly some Chineses content), they have no canards, no TVC but have taller, square-tipped ‘wet’ fins.

Very interesting post Ken! I presume that the Su-30MKR for the Russian air forces is made by KnAAPO then? I understand that it will be similar to IAPO’s Su-30MKI though… :confused:

Su-30MK2 for China

Shouldn’t that be Su-30MKK2?

Moldovan MiG-29

Speaking of new Fulcrum camo, here’s a moldovan with the new camo – unfortunatly only a tail shot:
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6076250

Side view:

Another try

Belgium Formally retires Magisters

Today, the Belgian Defence/air component (Comopsair) says goodbye to the last military Fouga operational in the world,

Was the Belgian air component really the last military user of the Magister?? What about Israel, El Salvador, Algeria, Morocco, Togo and Senegal, to name but a few?

Thanks Hendrik and Googler. I knew about the other two users already. Some sources state that Brunei also got 4 but maybe thay was a mix-up with Hawai.

I asked them how many Tu-160’s were in service – and I was met with just a few smiles.:D

Strange – the aviation media in Russia constantly give the numbers. It’s all publically available on START MOUs as it is – the number is 16 now, IIRC. I guess they’re just traditionally secretive. Or there’s 84 other Tu-160s hidden in a huge underground airbase somewhere ….

They’re indeed traditionally secretive, especially in air and AD units. I have often contact with Russian and other CIS military personel and many haven’t realized that the Cold War is over for some 15 years now (NATO = enemy, sort of)… Also, people in the units in general don’t know what kind of info is already available in open sources.

MiG-31 “Blue 60” is the upgraded MiG-31BM.