F-35, F-22, PAK-FA – come on be seriouse. It does not matter the least whether it is on par with them or inferior because huge interstate wars are impossible in today’s world. The only thing this bird will ever kill are some third world rebel camps, in case it gets exported…

NK does have MiG-21MF bought from Kazakhstan. There are even some photos. But I agree, the one above is a PFM

Abkahzia’s air arm is a rag-tag air force, this is why there is no standard insignia.
Both Aero L-39s and Yaks still used the faded stars.
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7780/aerol39albatros2.jpg

Mind however, that Abkhazia’s “insignia” tooo is a faded out Soviet star, which turned to white.

Well perhaps they were refurbished for Iran itself.
Still buying up them as part of a more complex deal could make sense.
After all Algerian MiGs were seen in Ethiopian colors in Ukraine, although that country too has its own stocks.

Ver interesting find! The Mig is actually a MiG-21bis and what stund me is that i has the very same camo and the very same stlye of serial as Ethiopian MiGs (position of the roundel is nonstandard for Sudanese fighter jets too).
There has to be some sort of connection.

Yes, that was my first thought, but there is one pilot missing. Is it possible that he flew a trainer like an L-39 on his own?

BTW, Yemeni L-39s have been overhauled and upgraded with new avionics by Ucraine. Not sure, but IIRC some of them have been converted to the light attack role. Could be one of them perhaps?

Yemen uses the export version alread equipped with underwing pylons, so no need for any conversion. L-39 are surely much better suited for COIN ops than MiG-29s so I can well imagine the accident was combat-related.