да товарищ, я знаю, как говорить на русском языке. И очень хотелось бы плавать под их аппаратной

Ok, quick, go get the "Hunt for Red October" soundtrack and put it on.

Playing?

Turn it up. Sing along a little.

Good, NOW you're ALMOST ready to get your mind blown.

You remember a post here about Shaba, Psycho, and Valder possibly infiltrating a Soviet airbase?

Well......it happened.

Let me lay it down for you:

8 October 2011
1100hrs local
BFE, Texas.

Two cars, separated by twenty miles, drop off the interstate and take the poorly maintained back roads past burned pastures and light woods.

The lead car, a red Pontiac, holds the advance team of Psycho and Valder, who are scouting ahead for the white Chevrolet in trail. They had come in from different parts of two states for this meetup.

The men in the Pontiac had, the day before, laid down some prep work on the other side of the city, looking over some similar but older hardware.

Upon arriving at their destination, once they met up, the three men were confronted with a series of innocuous looking generic fold-front hangars lined up in a row. Once there, the three men are met by a mixture of former military personnel. Former Bulgarian, Polish, East German, and USSOCOM personnel, that is.

Once inside, the men were introduced to a host of Cold War-era Soviet Bloc aircraft, built in the USSR, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Hopefully you'll enjoy the photos a fraction as much as the three men enjoyed learning about and looking over the aircraft themselves!


PZL Mielec TS-11 Iskra

Mil Mi-24 Hind-Ds getting serviced in the hangar

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23UB Flogger-C very similar to those flown by the Red Eagles in the 1960-80s

Below the Flogger's nose

Looking forward over the Fresco

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21US Mongol-B in an unusual almost Me-262-like scheme

MiG-15UTI Midget

That Mongol again


Two of the Mi-2Ts in the hangar

Shaba checks out the Mi-24 Hind-D gunner pit

under the Hind's nose

Mil Mi-2T Hoplite doing an engine test.

Under the nose of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F Fresco-C

MiG-21UM Mongol-B and MiG-23UB Flogger-C

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21UM Mongol-B

Hind-D doing engine runups

Buddy Jesus in the Mi-4T cockpit. You have to love these guys' sense of humor.