KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11705 posts, RR: 52 Reply 2, posted (3 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 5326 times:
Quoting Scbriml (Thread starter): I need some help identifying the sub-types of these "stored" MiGs.
I would say more like abandoned than stored.
Quoting Sovietjet (Reply 1): The first one is a Mig-23ML. The second one is a standard Mig-29.
Correct. Apparently the tow tractor left its spare tire in from of the Mig-29.
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11705 posts, RR: 52 Reply 4, posted (3 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 5020 times:
Quoting Scbriml (Reply 3): This was an interesting little collection of planes in the middle of nowhere, or Dolgoe Ledovo as the Russians call it.
By my count,right to left, there are 7 Mig-21s, 1 Mi-24. 3 Mig-29s, not sure what these two are but they only have one engine, and the last one is possibly a Mig-23 with one wing. Or maybe I only see one wing because the picture quality is low.
It does not appear to have the two airplanes pictured in your first post here, all of the Mig-29s have their radomes attached, and the airplane to the left of the Mig-23 is camo. In you pic of the Mig-23ML, the airplane next to it is grey and appears to be the tail of another Mig-23.
Sovietjet From Bulgaria, joined Mar 2003, 2339 posts, RR: 14 Reply 5, posted (3 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 5004 times:
The three planes to the left are all Mig-23s. Two have the wings swept forward. The Mig-29s may or may not have the radome attached. It could be an older photo and the 29 lost the radome recently. It could be the way the shadows are that the shadow look like a radome but it's not.
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11705 posts, RR: 52 Reply 6, posted (3 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 4986 times:
Quoting Sovietjet (Reply 5): The three planes to the left are all Mig-23s. Two have the wings swept forward.
Thanks, that is what I thought they could be, but I was not 100% sure.
Spacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2735 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (3 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 4978 times:
If you look at the paint scemes and use the silver MiG-23 as a reference, the -29 in the photo should be middle one(can see one more -29 and the silver -23 behind it), and the camo -23 is the middle of the three, or leftmost with the wings forward.
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11705 posts, RR: 52 Reply 8, posted (3 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 4969 times:
Do we know if the left most Mig-23, the one with the wings fully swept is actually missing the right wing, or is it just a bad picture (or my eyes)?
Jackonicko From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2008, 472 posts, RR: 11 Reply 9, posted (3 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 4944 times:
It's your eyes!
The air to ground picture shows:
MiG-21PFM?, Bort ‘69’
MiG-21PFS, Bort outline ‘101’ pointing opposite direction
MiG-21PFS, Bort outline ‘57’ radar removed
MiG-21PFS, Bort outline ‘53’ radar removed
MiG-21MT, Bort outline ‘14’
MiG-21MT, Bort green ‘11’
MiG-21MT, Bort green ‘15’
Mi-24A, Bort ‘Hind-A’ yellow ‘10’
MiG-29, Bort white ‘46’ (‘Fulcrum-C’)
MiG-29, Bort ‘60’ (‘Fulcrum-C’)
MiG-29, Bort blue ‘21’ (early ‘Fulcrum-A’)
MiG-23M, Bort green ‘01’ ('Flogger-B')
MiG-23ML, Bort blue ‘20’ ('Flogger-G')
MiG-23MLD, Bort ‘261’ ('Flogger-K')
Scbriml From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2003, 11358 posts, RR: 50 Reply 10, posted (3 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 4942 times:
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 4): It does not appear to have the two airplanes pictured in your first post here
I took those photos just last week, but I have no idea how old the Google Earth image is. What I can tell you is, none of the planes there have moved in a long time.
Unfortunately, we were told they were due to be scrapped soon, so they won't be there much longer.
Quoting Spacepope (Reply 7): the -29 in the photo should be middle one(can see one more -29 and the silver -23 behind it), and the camo -23 is the middle of the three
Yes and yes.
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 8): Do we know if the left most Mig-23, the one with the wings fully swept is actually missing the right wing, or is it just a bad picture (or my eyes)?
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