Stéphane Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Hello gentlemen I'm preparing to build 1/48 MiG 29 SMT and I'm looking for info, reference piccies, weapon configuration, web links etc. about the russian SMT dispatched to Syria, circa 2018. My web search wasn't very succesful until now, most of my hits being about MiG 29, not SMT, beeing delivered to Syria air force. If you have any hint, know the gem website about russia air operations, thanks in advance, Best Stef (#6) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Not much around on the web, but "The War Zone" on The Drive has some interesting articles and a few photographs that may help: The Warzone: MiG-29 Search results 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 This book has some info: https://www.scalemates.com/nl/books/mikoyan-mig-29-and-mig-35-famous-russian-aircraft-yefim-gordon-dimitriy-komissarov--119581 Cheers, Andre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stéphane Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 Thanks for the links, I'm currently digging it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 1/19/2021 at 1:55 PM, Troffa said: Not much around on the web, but "The War Zone" on The Drive has some interesting articles and a few photographs that may help: The Warzone: MiG-29 Search results Those are more likely older MiG-29 models not SMT.... The SMT was only deployed briefly to Syria .. after some research: Russian SMT in Syria, incl pictures https://theaviationist.com/2017/09/13/russia-has-deployed-its-mig-29smt-multirole-combat-aircraft-to-syria-for-the-very-first-time/ https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/russian-air-force-mig-29s-re-appear-in-syria https://twitter.com/russian_defence/status/939576198585307136 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAGATIGER Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Hi there The Russians on Syria, well some of us expect to see MiG-29STM, Su-27SM, Su-24M, Su-25 and maybe Su-34 armed with lots of bombs and surprizing other than (2 to 4) iron bombs not many can be seen in the news I wonder if the selective press news is really appliable or if its the reality of Russian AF not many PGM available As modeller I got some Zvesda kits in wonderful 1/72 scale and got impress with the variety of weapons inside I also watch Scalemates for Trumpeter kits but not many photos of fighter bombers full loaded (all pylons loaded) at least Best modelling Armando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blimpyboy Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 (edited) I'm not sure of the exact time and place for this bird, but it is from an article about an aircraft crash in Syria in 2018 (https://runaruna.ru/articles/18060-rossijskij-istrebitel-razbilsya-v-sirii/) Knowing my aircraft recognition skills, it's probably a MiG-29A from Serbia... Edited January 21, 2021 by Blimpyboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blimpyboy Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 (edited) This article is from 2017 (I think) and is about a MiG-29 detachment returning to Astrakhan: https://rg.ru/2017/12/13/reg-ufo/zveno-mig-29-smt-vernulos-iz-sirii-v-astrahan.html. I'm not sure if the pictures represent aircraft from the time period you are interested in. There are more photos at the bottom of the article. Edited January 21, 2021 by Blimpyboy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stéphane Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 Excellent, thank you all for your inputs, I'll see what my line will be, probably will go for the kit proposed schemes and will see to make a Su-25, for the weapon configurations seems to be more "sexy" 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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