Flankerman I love your Sukhoi! I know how dificult it is to kitbash several kits to create a completely new one, and especially with modern jets, to blend it all together. 🙂 Regarding the landing gear, the engineers planned to redesign it, but had to quickly install a provisional one so that they could present the aircraft to Brezhnev for the 50th aniversary of the Soviet Union 😀

The problem with “what-if” modellers: they often lack some basic airframe design knowledge and hence more or less combine the features of several aircraft. Here we see a Su-27 and a B-1B, combined with the very oddly attached missiles of a Tu-16. Still, nice try.

At least they have a sense of creativity and are open minded…. :rolleyes:
Awesome work Flankerman!

Anybody care to speculate on the possibility of a Kosovo air force, now that they’ve unilaterally declared their independence from Serbia? Any comments on what their national insignia might look like? Potential equipment?

Hmm my best guess is that they’ll get some UH-1s for transport duties and to transport special/anti-terrorism units but nothing more. It’s quite unlikely that they’ll establish an independent air arm, so if they’ll get flying units they’ll probably will be integrated into the army or even police. After all air-power won’t be a priority for Kosovo in the near future as they can always rely on Nato in that regard, building up police and riot control forces to maintain the fragile internal order will be way more important.

Weapons don’t kill people.
People kill people.

Absolutely true, let’s lift all weapon embargos and sell nukes and Raptors to North Korea :rolleyes:

That Libyan F-5 is an awesome find!!! I wonder why it carries US insignia, some kind of aggressor? :diablo:

What this really needs is someone to advertise a stealth paper aeroplane, the advert would contain a picture of just the desk!

… not to forget the Serb rubber-band and paper-balls that were used to shoot it down…

Libyan Hind

Quite some weird news:
El gobierno del sandinista Daniel Ortega está buscando apoyo internacional para adquirir al menos dos aviones de intercepción valorados en 10 millones de dólares, reiteró hoy el jefe del Ejército de Nicaragua, general Omar Halleslevens.

It will be interesting to see what kind of “interceptor” aircraft they’re interested in. Although Super Tucanos came to my mind first personally I wouldn’t rule out jet-fighters. Nicaragua also showed interest in the purchase of Ka-50 helicopters.