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Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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Some rare shots from my archive - all from the Cold-War Era

1977 GDR, Damgarten AB - Soviet AF 773rd iap. MiG-21bis

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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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"spotting" in the SSSR, Krasnodar AB 1979, MiG-21PFM "72" landing

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ORWO colour-slides

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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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SSSR Krasnodar AB 1978

My favorites are the same panoramic shots with a lot of different types

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In those days Peruvian and Iraqi pilots were on Su-20 training here, Viet, Hungarian, Polish, Indian, Ethiopian etc.... pilots were on MiG-21 training.
In the foreground is a MiG-21UM for ground cockpit-training.
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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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You took those pictures yourself? Wow, that requires a lot of guts! :shock:
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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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SquAdmin wrote:You took those pictures yourself? Wow, that requires a lot of guts! :shock:
Yes.
I was airframe-engine tech on MiG-21, Su-17 -22.
That was a stupid era with stupid security(photographing) rules in WP AFs.
For such pictures at that time it was possible to ring out easy in a tour to the solar Siberia.... :D
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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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1977 May - SSSR, Mari AB(Мары), the "Russian Top-Gun"
Here the Russians had a lot of flight-instructors with combat experience(in Egypt, Syria, Vietnam....).
This unit - 1038-й ЦБП - had MiG-21PFM -21SM 1970-75, MiG-21bis 1974-87, MiG-23 from mid 70s and later MiG-29.
Some of these planes wore very unique camouflage.

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MiG-23M "11" 5th gv.iap. - Sármellék AB, Hungary 1979

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Sármellék AB:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=46.6 ... 4&t=h&z=15
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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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Hungarian Air-Force - Magyar-Légierő - Ka-26 "503" at Tököl AB 1980.

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Tököl AB - the home of the Soviet 515.iap.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.3 ... 8&t=h&z=14
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1978, Su-17M2 in the export sand-green camouflage:

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MiG-17 SSSR Kushchevskaya AB 1963

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sorry, the quality is so-so....."home-made" ORWO b&w negative

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Cut from 6x12 ORWO colour negative

Kushchevskaya AB:
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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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Lovely stuff!!!

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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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SSSR Kushchevskaya AB 1981, MiG-21bis "blue 41" left-right shots.

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Poor quality paper-print scan, but I think the modellers will like it.
Most of the painting guides for the camouflaged Soviet AF MiG-21 decal sheets(and for kits) are fantasy of their publishers - or based on one-side photo only.
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1985 Poland, Gdynia Babie-Doly AB
Hungarian AF MiG-21MF with 3x490 litres droptank + 2xRS-2US missiles.

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Gdynia Babie-Doly AB:
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1977 GDR, Damgarten AB

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SSSR Astrachan, Privologskiy AB 1982, Exercise "Strelba-82"

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