Operation Bolo!

In about each and every garden complex near Eastern Block airbases, you can find dozens of external fuel tanks (mostly of the stubby sort, as on the MiG-15) as water tanks. Also quite a number of An-2 fuselages as sheds.

They shouldn’t buy aircraft, they should rebuild Zeljava and rent it out 🙂

The BiH UH-1H’s aren’t anywhere near to being operational. In 2003 only three out of the 15 delivered remained airworthy, with no spares to keep those three in the air for any serious amount of time.

As for equipping the BiH air force: get a bunch of additional Hips, and possibly some Hinds and light trainer/utility helos. A token force of fighters is absolutely useless for both BiH and the Republika Srpska, especially considering the terrain. The Serbs still have their handful of Galebs and Oraos on strength, but their operational readiness isn’t much better than that of the BiH Irokez (their nick for the Hueys)…

Besides, what good is an air force if you need to file each and every flight at least one day in advance at IFOR (now an EU operation, which probably means even more bureaucracy compared to last month when it was still a NATO thingie).

A fair enough assertion. But does require more digging: What are the antecedents of the Super-7?

CATIC, the J-7 and Grumman, see the Jane’s scan posted by Sens.

Arthur, IIRC, the designation MiG-21F was used for the Czech-made MiG-21s, produced at Letnany, which had the rearview canopy window deleted. They have found their ways to some other countires as exports, as well.

Was it officially without the ‘-13’ bit, or did they just use the MiG-21F designation for shorthand? Remember that the original MiG-21F was only built in very small numbers, so it was probably a lot easier just to leave out the “-13” bit because it wouldn’t cause any confusion anyway.
Also… i thought they were built as S.106 rather than MiG-21?

I also remember the Mongolian MiG-21PFMs being bare-metal, but I also remember them having three digit niumbers starting with zero, e.g. 018. 012 etc. which was unusual for VVS SSSR birds. The pic probably remains a mystery…

Yep, the three-digit numbers are confusing me too. Although training bases with the VVS did have three-digit bort numbers. The pic could for example also be taken at Barnaul where they had a training base with camouflaged MiG-21PFMs with three-digit bort numbers.

Oh, and i got the MiG-29 CD-ROM in the mail two weeks ago. Excellent, my compliments!

The FC-1 is the evolved Super-7, period. Earlier Chinese reports actually use both the name S-7 and FC-1 for the very same project. Tiger01’s quote describes the K-8, and has nothing to do with the FC-1.

That IAR-95 link is pathetically dragged out, by the way. Wolverine is absolutely right on that one.