Angolan Mi-24

To make things even more weird Venezuela seems to be interested in the Yak-141!!!!! 😮 There’s a thread about it at the fav-club forum. This Chávez guy almost reminds me of Perón and his Pulquis.

I really like that subdued-grey camo scheme. Fits the FLANKER very well I think, certainly more attractive than, say, the PLAAF’s Su-27SK scheme. Reminds me of Indonesia’s FLANKER paintjob.

Say what you want about Chavez/motivations/politics/etc, but any serious enthusiast should be excited at the prospect of new photos of brand new FLANKERs flying around in a foreign air arm. The major plus side to Venezuela buying FLANKERs is that we’ll be able to see a good deal of images I believe, given that they aren’t scarcely used or hard to find like Ethiopian or Angolan birds. Chavez, dude, forget Russia…talk to Beijing about some J-10s so we can get a serious (uncensored) look at that one next!

I agree though some Su-39s, Ka-50s, Mi-28s or Su-35s would be cool too 😎

“Gorilla Warfare”

🙂 Pretty funny…but there are no Gorillas in that region……..only in Africa.

Cheers

wouldn’t be so sure about this one …. 😀

BTW if Brazil does order the Su-35 how long would it take to deliver them? AFAIK Venezuela was interested in them, too but decided to go for the Su-30MK2 because it was more readily available.

You are a bit mistaken here, Fabe. Note the DRC in Curahee’s post which means The Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa (known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997).

I know it’s the same country but there’s still a considerable diffference. The DRC is a sovereign nation, Zaire was the private property of Mobutu Sese Seko (and subsequently Zaire’s air force too). Both also used different roundels so I think you should distinguish between the two. Just like the GDR air-force wasn’t the same as the Third Reich Luftwaffe.

Great going Banshee and all those of you keeping an eye open for updating this thread !! 😀

While I’ve been away for a while. Now I can see that You all worked a great deal of outstanding finds all alone to keep this unique thread alive. I find them all very useful and interesting.

While going actively through the net in search of something special, I was not only able to pick up a couple of images of two MiG-21PFMs in Congo DRC AF inventory, but also a wide variety of A/Cs and helicopters placed in active service within numerous countries in all over the globe.

What follows is a rather supprising to you since almost nothing has been brought to the light to date in terms of photographic evidence.

Interestingly, All of which appears to have its engine covering missing. making it rather difficult to identify the unique roundel of its own which is usually supposed to be carried on the side of it, is sighted dumped on the hardstand of Gbadolite Airfield which lies in the distant interior of the Congo DRC.

According to much detailed infos concerning this available in the open literature, Only four of which were given to Congo DRC as a part of serbian effort to significantly improve then-president Kabila’s Air assets during his tenure of presidency.

I hope you’ll like them all and to see more comming sooner,

I hoped for high-res pics of these two Mig-21s for two years now!!! 😮 😀 😀
Thanks really much for those pics!!! Where did you get them from?
I have however a small correction they’re not from the Congolese airforce but from the Zairean airforce, which purchased them in 1997 from Serbia.

Ugandan L-29

Hi guys, another dull Sunday here in Prague, CZ, but another great find on net !
This time it is Nigerian MiG-21MF from Abuja – Nnamdi Azikiwe International, courtesy of Airliners.net again …

Regards Jakub

Good work Jakub!!!! 😮 Actually it’s a Mig-21bis which makes your find even more spectacular as Nigeria was only known to have operated Mig-21MFs so far.