Yes…
Flagon - too pointy, the ultimate Communist lawn dart.
Foxbat - less pointy, still not doing it for me.
Flogger - Still too pointy, but at least it has swing-wings.
If those are the three options, I’d like a Flogging please.
So, Flogger in 1/72 - Hasegawa or Academy? Or are they the same mold anyway??
(I’m a small-scale guy when it comes to pointy stuff like this)
How a bout a MiG-31 Foxhound, that is a cool aircraft! Just look at those afterburners!
For a mere € 19.000,- you can fly in one!
I once flogged a fruit-bat and got a smoothie…
Quite a few of the Soviet / Russian aircraft look are cryogenically cool!
Manstein, you should of made a soviet jet group build instead lol
I might just open that up to all Soviet jets after the MiG-15…
Oh this is getting better… 1950 to 1991 era?
Yes…Includes Fitters, Floggers, Foxbats, Flankers, Flagons…
Fagots? Forgers? Firebars? Flashlights? Frogfoots? Foxhounds? Frescos?
No MiG-15s (NATO designation Fagot) … post '53 only…
How come ground attack aircraft such as Frogfoots Fitters and Fencers come under fighter designation?
Because NATO never had a separate designation category for strike/attack or CAS aircraft. And until the Fencer and Frogfoot, those were all basicly dual role fighter types. Some were stronger in Air to Air like the Fishbed, and other like the Fitter were better at Air to Ground.
Flagon don’t care…
I like the Flogger, reminds me of a high-wing F-4 Phantom. I have always really liked the “big and bad” look of the Foxbat (and, even though its a totally different aircraft, but very similar, the MIG-31) but as was mentioned earlier, the 25 was pretty much a one-purpose aircraft. the Flogger gives you alot more ordnance options too Manny.
mike-espo: i agree about the revell Foxbat… i had the reboxing of it, the fits were terrible and the surface detail was raised and not very good.
Flogger…but the Mig27 one…looks like a swing wing Jag to me…
I remember a story from the 1970’s about the MiG 25. Carter had put an export ban on IC’s to the soviet block nations. Everyone was panning him for it. then a North Korean pilot landed one in Japan. Of course, out intelligence people tore it apart. We sent it back to the North Koreans in crates. One of the things that was found was that the soviets were 15 to 20 years ahead of us in vacuum tube technology (Why? because we gave up on them because of heat and size limiation questions). All of the IC’s in the aircraft were made by Texas Instrument. That silenced some critics for a while. This was in an article in the old “Strategy and Tactics” magazine put out by SPI.
Mike T.
Are you referring to this?
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-pilot-lands-russian-mig-fighter-plane-in-japan
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