Alepou, do you have any pictures of a Greek Tor M1 launching a missile?

AdmarilZhengHe wrote:

and why do many country by J-7 when they can buy MiG-21?

Because the MiG-21 isn’t in production any more.

why do greece need to spend more for the same thing.

It’s not the same thing. Chinese products (ranging from T-shirts to fighter planes) are cheaper, but of lower quality.
But this is not the point here. The point is that Greece already has in service SAMs in the same class as the ones currently produced by China (as I was pointing out in my previous post), so there is no point in buying a redundant system, no matter how cheap it is.

use the brain a little bit and realize the reality

I am using my brain, unfortunatly the same thing cannot be said about you.

Some of the above ex-soviet countries only inherited their Foxbats after the break up of the Soviet Union, it’s doubtful whether they flew them at all.

Probably Turkmenistan never flew them, Kazahstan maybe, maybe not.
Azerbaidjan used them in combat against Armenia in Nagorny-Karabah.
Armenia got its lone R(B) after the conflict

including such exotic types as the Il-76

Excuse me? Since when is the Il-76 “exotic”?!?

It’s debatable whether some of these countries could afford to or even knew how to actually gain the maximum benefit from such aircraft.

That’s valid for most of the aircraft types they operated.

Bulgaria also had a few 25s…and it was neither rich or with a large population.

That’s why they couldn’t afford to operate them – anyway they only had 3 Rs and one PU. After an R crashed, they were grounded and swapped later for 6 used MiG-23MLs

syria, khazakstan possibly algeria?

Syria yes, Kazahstan has MiG-31s, its 25s are in storage, just like the 24 Foxbats in Turkmenistan, and there’s also Azerbaidjan, Algeria definatly, not possibly.

Here are lots of Foxbat pics:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=53758&page=1&highlight=Bulgarian+MiG-25

Regarding Russian MiG-17F’s, did they ever carry the AA-2 on the inboard pylon?

That particular bird is a Lim-5P, as Arthur said.

Regarding Russian MiG-17F’s, did they ever carry the AA-2 on the inboard pylon?

I believe there’s not enough space for the AA-2 to be carried on the inboard pylons.

but I’ve seen mention of 4-shot rocket pods. Anyone know anything?

Could be the UB-4 (57mm). Widely used on L-29 Delfin and other small birds.
Or it could be the Egyptian Sakr (76mm).
Anyway, here’s an interesting article with artworks and weapons for the Fresco:
http://www.brushfirewars.org/aircraft/mig_17f_pf_pm/mig_17_1.htm

instead of using 5 drop tanks of various sizes.

Actually the F-16 can carry only 3 fuel tanks, the small ones are luggage pods.

Northax wrote:

become aggressive toward a target that no one has notified them of being in the area?

I don’t think the IDF can’t identify/track any troop (larger than platoon-size) movement in south Lebanon. They know very well who is who, just like in the case of USS Liberty.

flex wrote:

Why? They started to import Chinese recently (J-7, K-8, maybe FC-1).

They imported J-7s in the late 70s/early 80s. No J-7s were delivered in the last 15 years.
K-8 is license-produced, not imported.
As you said, FC-1 is still MAYBE.

star49 wrote:

soviet=russia?

Pretty much yes.