SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Looks better too.
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U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4N Phantom II from Fighter Squadron VF-51 Screaming Eagles intercepts a Soviet-built Libyan Tupolev Tu-22 "Blinder" over the Mediterranean Sea, circa in April 1977. The Tu-22 bomber was being delivered to Libya. VF-51 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 4 October 1976 to 21 April 1977.
Nice. But please source the pics.
Maybe was it the one shot down by the French with a Hawk missile in the vicinity of N'Djamena on september 7, 1987.It's a Libyan Arab Tupolev Tu-22 ( The Libyan Arab Republic Air Force 1969-77 ). The pic was taken in April 1977 before the Federation of Arab Republics was disbanded in the same year. Hence the arab style national markings.
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the source: the net.
I love the Scimitar !
I've shot AIM-7s at a few of those. Has a T-37 engine.A BQM-34A target drone noses over as it starts for the water, out of control, following engagement by a laser beam from
the Air Force Airborne Laser Laboratory, at the Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu (California), 26 September 1983.
There is damage to the right rear quarter of the drone.
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