They are Fitters and not Floggers.

Hi

These pictures for Su-22 not MIG-23. Note the nose and wing and there is no side air intake.

Because of the overwelming opposition I looked at the pics again and checked it against known MiG-23 locations like the large line-up at Timisioara AB Romania. I now believe you´re right that they are Fitters and not Floggers. Sorry. 😮 🙁

Arthur,

Any more stupid remarks?

Please Yara, do not tease him or he (Arthur) will bore us with more useless comments :rolleyes:

No, but I can tell you what I saw on Google Earth:

11 MiG-29, 11 Su-22, 6 F-5, 5 MiG-23 (not used), 2 C-130, 3 IL-76,
5 An-24/26, 24 Mi-8/17, 2 Ka-25…32

So please enlight us with some placemarks or lon/lat info………like this one

Curious. Polish Fitters i think. But the plane with the chute deployed on air seems from Hungary.

http://forum.airforce.ru/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=71

Regards from Spain.

Affirmative, the ´04´ is Hungarian !!!!!!

1.3 BN USD its a lot of money !!!!!

Where do these guys get the money from?? I do not think its a rich oil country like Saudi Arabia or UAE or am I wrong???

:confused:

Don’t know if this has been posted before, but came across this whilst surfing just now… What puzzles me though is this… in the pictures the unfinished part of the runway seems to be near the end.. so, with his fully reversable props and brakes the size of small houses… why did it not stop in time?? surely atc would have told the pilot there was a dirty great big hole in the runway, no……? 😮 😮

Check this out….! 😀

http://airpower.callihan.cc/HTML/Spotlight/IraqC130.htm

Here’s what happens when you don’t properly “NOTAM” (notice to airmen)an airfield under construction. A lack of communication over in Iraq.

A C-23 Sherpa flew into a U.S. operated airfield in Iraq during the day and saw there was construction equipment on the runway. Yet there was no NOTAM. A trench was being dug in the runway, and it was not marked. It’s a long runway and they just landed beyond the construction. They filed a safety hazard report that was immediately forwarded to our higher headquarters and to the Air Force wing based here.

Well, it seems the construction continued and still was not marked or NOTAM’ed or anything. A C-130 landed on the runway the night of the 29th and didn’t see the construction. It wound up going through what is now a large pit on the runway. The C-130 was totaled.

There were several injuries to the crew and the few passengers that were on board but luckily nobody was killed. Quite the set of failures somewhere in the system regarding this improper construction and no notifications about it.

Additional notes:

1) These pictures never should have been released. Those were property of the US Air Force and evidence in an investigation (I’m all for freedom of the press, but those should have been controlled images). It is likely that these pictures were discovered on a poorly secured shared drive at this installation where this happened and they were passed on to friends, family,…and later the press.

2) The aircraft in question is not merely a C-130. It is an MC-130 Talon II. It is a special operations aircraft designed for infiltration/exfiltration of special operations personnel/equipment on unprepared runways (i.e. dirt strips, roads, dirt roads, etc. These aircraft are stationed at Hurlburt Field, FL. They routinely fly at 300 ft off the ground in blacked out conditions for up to 8 hrs.

Tu-22M3 Ukrain… 🙁

http://forum.airforce.ru/viewtopic.php?t=669

ex Iraqi Su-22 Fitters at Shahrokhi Air Base Iran

In the north corner of this base lots of Fitters can be found. Reports suggest that ex Iraqi Fitters are stored at this base so these are probably them since the based aircraft here are F-4. Can anyone confirm !!!!!!!!

From Globalsecurity.org some backgroundinfo:

At least 115 combat aircraft flew to Iran, out of the total of 137-149 aircraft flown to Iran or crashed enroute [including 15 Il-76s and some number of civilian airliners]. According to an official Iraqi statement, the aircraft included 115 combat aircraft, among them 24 Mirage F1s, 4 Su-20 Fitters, 40 Su-22 Fitters, 24 Su-24 Fencers, seven Su-25 Frogfoots, nine MiG-23 Floggers, and four MiG-29 Fulcrums. Reports that Saddam Hussein ordered 20 Tu-22 bombers to Iran appear unfounded. In 1993 it was reported that Russia was to provide Iran with spare parts, armaments, and operating manuals for the Iraqi jets that flew to Iran during the Gulf War. In 1993 it was reported that China had bought an unknown number of these MiG-29s from Iran, in exchange for Chinese missile technology and a nuclear power station. The two countries had reportedly reached agreement on the exchange in late 1992, with Iran having delivered some of the MiG-29s by the end of 1992. In 1998 Iraq and Iran had high-level meetings to discuss ending their state of war and other matters, including Iraq’s request to have its airplanes back. Iran denied it had used any of the Iraqi fighter planes. If Iran had kept the Iraqi planes grounded for the entire time, they are probably nonfunctional — the Iranians may not be able to start the engines or operate the hydraulics. Other reports suggest that some Su-24s have been added to Iran’s existing inventory, some Su-20/22s were in Revolutionary Guard service. The Iraqi Su-25s, MiG-23s and Mirage F1s were thought by some to be not in service, due to age, low capability (MiG-23s) or too few numbers (Su-25). Other reports suggest that Iran had overhauled Iraq’s fleet of 24 Mirage F-1B fighters and placed them into service.