Fitter and Flogger

[Splitpin]

Fitter (SU-22)





Flogger (MIG-23)

[simonh]

Those are all great. My picks would be the last two of the Flogger. the white rhino silhouette on the Fitters tail is unusual.
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[Aharon]

Great shots of historic Cold War Soviet planes

Regards,

Aharon

[Splitpin]

Thanks for the comments.
The fitter is marked as an aircraft from the 20th Guards fighter-bomber regiment.

[hasegawa]

We also had the Sukhoi swivel-wing aircraft in the GDR. There were two "Geschwader" one belonged to the Air force and one to the Navy. The Sukhois were quite popular, the MiG 23 less so, especially the ground attack version. It has not proven effective in Afghanistan either. By the way, it was Boris Yeltsin who abolished these aircraft. After a series of air shows in which single-engine planes publicly crashed, all Russian military aircraft were required to have 2 engines. That was radical, but not wrong.

[Charl]

radical, but not wrong.

Ah the (Twin-engined) Flankers set out to prove this definitely wrong.
At one point it seemed that these things were set to self-destruct at every airshow.
And of course Youtube was on hand, some examples
Paris
Poland
And of course the Sknyliv Disaster which killed 78 spectators