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Soviet Tomcat!


Muzz

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This picture appeared a few years ago, however very soon it was found that it was just a photoshop job on an already existing picture of an iranian aircraft. There's another picture around and that one too is a fake.

Considering the reputation of that website, I'm not surprised to see a fake picture there..

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Never seen or heard of this before, makes sense seeing the US had the Have Doughnut trials etc. F-14 Tomcat with red stars anyone?!

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Flanker.html

Nah! Totally fake and it's been proved to be a photo-shop job many times, this website has before and after images of the supposed Soviet Tomcats... It is fairly interesting though, especially for a 'what-if' model... As Giorgio hinted, that Australian website linked is riddled with politics, propaganda and downright mis-information.

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I did this WIF a while back - using an old Nakotne Su-30 kit......

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The Flanker suits the VF-1 Tomcat scheme......

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The nosewheel, armament & decals came from the Airfix F-14 kit.

The model was inspired by an article in the US magazine 'Flight Journal' dated February 2002 - where a proposal was put forward

by Robert W. Kress and Rear Adm. Paul Gillcrist, US Navy (Retd) suggesting the replacement of the F-14 Tomcat by the Su-27!!

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More details of the build are here.

Ken

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