Blue Grey Camo — 6 museum-grade prints in this palette. The AV-8B Harrier II bridged British V/STOL innovation and U. S. The MiG-29 entered Soviet service in 1983 as a twin-engine counter to Western lightweight fighters, pairing high angle-of-attack agility with the R-73 Archer and N019 Sapfir radar family. The 968th Fighter Aviation Regiment — Sevastopolskiy Red Banner, order of Suvorov — took delivery of its first MiG-29 in November 1983 and became the type's instructor-research hub at Lipetsk, where test and instructor pilots developed combat manoeuvre guidelines that shaped Fulcrum employment across the VVS and PVO. The Sukhoi Su-25 Grach — known in NATO reporting as Frogfoot — first flew on 22 February 1975 and entered front-line regimental service in 1981 as a dedicated subsonic attack aircraft built around direct ground-force support in the pilot's line of sight. Titanium armor around the cockpit bathtub, redundant control runs, and short-field capability let Frogfoot crews operate from austere strips near the front, while the GSh-30-2 twin 30 mm cannon and wing pylons for S-25 rockets, Kh-25 missiles, and general-purpose bombs defined its tank-plinking and battlefield interdiction role across Soviet, Russian, and export service.
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