Flogger…if you look very very attentive to the Khazakh MiG-29 photo… Look bellow the horizontal stabilisor. You`ll notice a counter-direction (sorry for my English). I thought that aerodinamic arrangement was used only on the prototypes…

Yep, you’re correct that those small fins(?) are installed on early production MiG-29s. However, they were found to be unnecessary (on the -29s) and were deleted from later production models.

Whereas on the SU-27s, they (the small fins) were absent during the prototype testing but were subsequently installed on later production -27s.

With the mullahs in power, it’s just a matter of time before those missiles start to make known their presence among some ‘Dysfunctional & Misplaced groups’ (aka Hizbollah) in South Lebanon. 😡

I have thought about it and also a Jordanian IDS model too,but as of yet,haven’t found a good side view to base it on,but I’m working on it.The other problem is Photobucket resizes it from a nice sized pic,to that little thing,so on most of my drawings,you can’t really make out the detail you could on a full sized copy.Just finished a couple AH-1W SuperCobras last night,one from Saudi Arabia,in the 3 tone desert camo,and a German PAH-2 model.Getting back to the A-7,I was thinking of doing one of the A-7G models Switzerland was supposed to get.Heres a link to my photobucket album to see some of what I’ve done.http://photobucket.com/albums/c177/OPFOR/

BEAUTIFUL! Thank you very much for the link, IIAF (or do you prefer IRIAF?) F-14A? 😀

Well, if my memory is still correct, I believe the RTN A-7s are based at U-Tapao?

I haven’t forgotten the February-March 1979 China-Viet Nam unpleasantness either. 8P

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/prc-vietnam.htm
http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/vat/vietnam/fchinavietnam1979.htm

Since you mentioned it, any pics of wrecks from that border incursion? Surely, that conflict couldn’t be just restricted on the ground only…or is it?

F-8 crash in VietNam.

Just wondering? Is this F-8 wreakage (& others) still there? Or have they been cleared up and now put on display in some American War musueum in Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City?

During the Falklands war a Russian ship with lots of aerials (allegedly) was sat at the approach to the runway at Accension. Because it was in international waters it could not be forced away. Allegedlly two 29 Sqd Phantoms took off at dusk and circled with lights off…

colin

Phantoms in the Falkland War? I had the impression that the planes (UK-side) involved primarily the Harriers and the occasional Vulcan bomber. Or was I wrong?

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