I’m going to nitpick if you gentlemen don’t mind too much…
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It’s a Su-17 from the first production series, which didn’t get a Western designation (the FITTER-C was a later variant). Easy to recognise because of the awkward down-pointing antenna on the vertical tail (i won’t bother you guys with the details of that, i will TRY to keep the boring acronyms at the modern military aviation board 😉 )
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It’s the T10M-1 prototype, the first Su-27M or (as it’s designated nowadays) Su-35. The prototypes of this new-ish variant all are have bort numbers in the 7xx range, and you can tell them apart from normal Flankers easily since the M’s have a fatter nose.
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The boxy helo on the right is a Yak-24 HORSE.
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This is a Mi-6PG, the firefighting version. The red gun-like thing below the nose is the water cannon.
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Pre-series Su-7 FITTER.
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Tu-95N, this is a one-off variant which was made to drop testbed airframes (just like those NASA B-52s do).
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Su-9 FISHPOT B
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The Myasishchev BISON at Monino is actually a 3MD, not an M-4. For some reason, these machines recieved variant designators quite unlike other Soviet aircraft.
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Su-2, this was a ground attack/shturmovik aircraft in the same class as the Il-2. Unfortunately the Il-2 was already in production by the time the Su-2 emerged, so not too many were built (some 500 IIRC). It was said to have been a superior aircraft.
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Both are Yak-25s, the first one a Yak-25RV MANDRAKE high-altitude recce plane, the other one a regular Yak-25 FLASHLIGHT interceptor.
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Ye-166, basically a MiG-21 fitted with a huge R15F engine which is also in the MiG-25. This was a speed record machine, based on up-engined MiG-21s which were seriously considered to become new high-speed interceptors. These were dropped since it was a better idea to fit big engines into a big airframe, and that got to be the MiG-25.
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This is a Su-7BKL, you can tell it’s one of these because it has little skids next to the main wheels. There is another Su-7 standing right behind it at the museum with an all-skid landing gear, but that was just some testbed. The Su-7BKL was a production aircraft.
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It’s a Tupolev M-141 Striji recce drone.
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This is a MiG-31 FOXHOUND, not a -25. The MiG-31 has a two-seat cockpit and looks overall different.
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This is a really old Su-15 (without any letters) FLAGON A.
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A Su-11 FISHPOT C. This was a total dog, it’s basically a Su-9 fitted with a larger radar in a larger nose intake so it could carry larger missiles (you can compare them with the smaller ones on the Su-9 at pic -52-). Unfortunately, this bigger nose ment that the aircraft was really nose heavy and very difficult to fly. Stupidly enough the production order was given already, and just over 100 of these unhandable Fishpots were built. Most of them appearantly were shot down as target drones.
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