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MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF
1028
(1) FIGHTERS & INTERCEPTORS
by Piotr Butowski
PUBLICATIONS COMPANY
1028
by Piotr Butowski
4+/4
PUBLICATIONS COMPANY
Copyright© 1992
by CONCORD PUBLICATIONS CO.
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Kong Nam Industrial Building
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We are always on the look-out for new,
unpublished photos for this series.
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Full photo credits will be given upon
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ISBN 962-361-028-9
FRONT COVER
Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker in Kubinka air base near Moscow.
BACK COVER
Printed in Hong Kong
Su-27IB with Kh-31 anti-radiation missiles on underfuselage stations, AS-
14 Kedge on outboard underwing stations and AA-11 Archer on wing tips.(via
Steven Zaloga)
All photos by Piotr Butowski unless otherwise stated.
Introduction
• his is the first of a set of four photo-books, in which I shall present all types of military air-
craft of East European Countries, particularly the Soviet aircraft. The first book will include the
fighters a n d interceptors, t h e successive books will b e d e v o t e d t o strike aircraft such as
bombers a n d attack planes, afterwards the helicopters will be discussed a n d finally the recon-
naissance aircraft, AWACS, training planes etc.
It was not my intention to present a bare set of photos. Therefore the captions c a n be read
as a separate story containing the development, application, versions a n d characteristics of
aircraft. The greatest attention will be paid to the essential features of a military aircraft i.e. the
combat potential a n d w e a p o n . The individual types of aircraft will be presented in historical
succession, from, living through its last days, MiG-21 Fishbed up to the aircraft which are now
being developed without any certainty to be used in the future in armed forces.
Not long a g o , the air forces of East Europe, enclosed in rigid frames of Warsaw Pact, were
equipped mainly with Soviet aircraft. Only some light aircraft were of Czechoslovakian, Polish
or Romanian design. We are now witnessing the quick changes. From 1 April 1991 o n , the
Warsaw Pact ceased to exist a n d late non-Soviet members are looking for the Western aircraft.
There is no more GDR. The firm structure of Soviet Union has disintegrated a n d w e will see the
separate air forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Therefore this booklet is a
frozen picture of the last days of old East Europe.
I would like to thank all institutions a n d persons who helped in providing photos or informa-
tion for this book. Also many thanks to all friends.
Piotr Butowski
Abbreviations
AAM - air-to-air missile
ASM
GCI
IFF
ILS
IRST
PVO
- air-to-surface missile
- ground-controlled intercept
- identification friend-or-foe
- instrument l a n d i n g system
- infra-red search a n d tracking
- Protivo-Vozdushniaya Oborona, Air Defense
ECM - electronic countermeasure
SLAR - side-looking airborne radar
VTOL - vertical take-off a n d landing
VVS
- Voenno-Vozdushniye Sily, Air Forces
The maximum speed of MiG-21
Fishbed is equal to 2,175km/h
(Ma=2.05), the service ceiling amounts
to 19,000m. The Achilles heel of this
aircraft is the small range, no more
than 1,370km at optimum condition,
and only 1,000kg of armament weight.
The photo shows MiG-21 PFM Fishbed
F.
In spite of great number of manu-
factured MiG-21 Fishbed, this type of
aircraft is now very scarce in USSR.
The VVS
(Voenno-Vozdushniye Sily -
air force) have 120 Fishbeds, another
40 aircraft of this type are used by the
aviation units of the PVO
(Protivo-
Vozdushniaya Oborona -
air defense).
So there are 160 MiG-21 aircraft, no
more than 2.4% of total number of
6,611 combat aircraft. This reconnais-
sance MiG-21 R Fishbed H has been
recently handed over to the museum.
The anti-aircraft potential of MiG-
21 MF is not very strong. The aircraft
has RP-21M (Sapffr-21 M) radar (NATO
codename Spin Scan) with search
range equal to 20km and tracking
range - 10km. The armament includes
four obsolete AAMs (air-to-air missiles)
and a cannon. There are no counter-
measure nor counter-countermeasure
devices.

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