There isn’t a lot of ECM gear aboard most AWACs, you know. As AerospaceT. wrote, the most viable countermeasure for an AWACS platform would be a towed decoy with EM+IR+radar signature c haracteristics similar to the AWACS.

You shouldn’t forget that the traditional defense of an AWACs is it’s position well behind the ‘frontlines’. Missiles like the KS172 for a large part negate that, and bring the AWACs back to what it actually is: a huge electro-magnetic lighthouse, floating on a few square feet of metal with slightly different pressures on either side.

32FIS, Soesterberg / Camp Amsterdam AFB

Some European-based Deuces. First the 526 FIS, Ramstein.

Good, still beat them by a few hours 🙂

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Su-24 FENCER-A, one of the really old ones. This ones is built somewhere in production batches 3 to 11 as you can tell by the fixed intake, lacking intake in the fin, and the gooseneck pitot/antenna array on the nose. Too bad you can’t see the rear of this one, because Fencer-As have really ugly, boxy bums.

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This is the true Su-27 prototype, the T10-1. It had to be redesigned somewhat to become the Flanker as we know it, as you can see.

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This is a MiG-21bis-Lazur, you can tell by the shape and size of the spine (which with the Bis extends as far backwards as the chute housing extends forwards) and the antenna on the fin.

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This is that Su-7 testbed with an all-skid landing gear mentioned above. It’s official designation is S-26

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A Su-17M3 or one of the nearly identical variants. I won’t bore you with the details, there is a pretty recent thread on these Fitters in the military aviation forum.

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A Yak-27R MANDRAKE recce plane.

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A Yak-28L BREWER-C bomber. Easiest way to tell if you’re looking at a Yak-27 or Yak-28 is to check the star on the tail: -27s have the star below the horizontal tail, -28s have it above. Thankfully neither was exported…

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Yak-36M FORGER-A. It is better known as the Yak-38 of course, but that designation was only given after the Forger had been in service for some a couple of years. Prior to that (about 1977), these jump jets were called Yak-36M. Since this is a pre-series aircraft (full production aircraft have strakes next to the dorsal intake for the lift engines) which was already withdrawn from use by the time the designation Yak-38 was issued, this is a Yak-36M.

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MiG-15Sh. This is a one-off prototype for a Shturmovik variant of the MiG-15, but it wasn’t taken up.

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MiG-19PM FARMER-D. The variant with radar and missiles, but without guns.

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MiG-21S/SM/M/MF. It’s one of these four, which all have a shorter spine as the Bis. Differences between these four are even more obscure than the rest of the stuff i posted now, so i’ll spare you.

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The one surviving La-250 Anakonda, the last aircraft from the Lavochkin design bureau. A little bit bigger than a La-9…

At least Bush posed in the cockpit 😀
Seriously, i was given concrete evidence that GWB did visit his ANG base in 1973. The White House has off-the-record released records of a dental visit by the later president in January 1973 as a PDF to selected journalists. Being only one email away from a certain selected journalist… here’s the unmistakable evidence of GWB fulfilling his duty.

I left the actual teeth markings out, they probably aren’t up to date anymore and they wouldn’t be helpful in identifying the guy anyway

Now, get out of that cockpit! You’ve got a dentist appointment.
And so he did…

Finland wasn’t the only Hornet-For-Food program. When Thailand ordered it’s Hornets prior to the Asia-crisis, part of the deal was that most of it would be paid with food: mostly chicken, but also rice and palm oil. The Malaysian Hornets (as are most of Malaysia’s current defence procurements) were also paid in palm oil.

Time for another IDF/AF-marked aircraft which never flew with the IDF/AF…

This is a French F-84F from EC1/1, which operated out of Israel during the Suez crisis. For the operation, the 18 aircraft of EC 1/1 (some of them were bailed from EC3 though) was ‘officially’ an IDF/AF squadron, given the designator 200 Tayaset, and flying from Lod. EC 3/2 with Mystère IVA’s was operating in a similar manner as 199 Tayaset from Ramat David.