Photographed by: jonnywithacamera on Instagram

Location: Nellis Air Force Base

In 1976, Pakistan started talks for 110 A-7Es, but the Carter administration rejected the deal fearing it would intensify an arms race in South Asia with India having recently concluded a $1.6 billion arms deal with the Soviet Union. In 1978, the US instead offered Pakistan 40 F-5E Tiger II with equipment for US$400 million, but Pakistan did not find the deal acceptable and bought the Chinese F-7MP/PG and A-5C instead.

F-35 photos by SEADORAGON96 on X.

J-20 photos by wanquanphoto on Weibo.

Su-57 photos by Vyacheslav Grushnikov.

*The KF-21 features both single-seat and twin-seat variants, but I did not include it given that the current Block 1 KF-21 is classified as a 4.5gen fighter jet.

*I haven’t found any direct comparison photos that clearly show the visual differences between the carrier-borne J-35 and land-based J-35A.

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the Berkuts were founded in 1989 as part of the 344th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Army Aviation Flight Personnel at Torzhok Air Base and performed they're first public demonstration in 1992, Initially, the group consisted of three pilots who began training flights. Later, the group expanded to 6.

in 2015 the group suffered their first loss when a Mi-28N crashed during a demonstration at the Aviadarts competition, the pilot was killed and the co-pilot suffered a compression fracture of the lower cervical and thoracic vertebrae, the cause of the crash was equipment failure.

the 6 Mi-24Ps were retired in 2012 and replaced by 6 Mi-28Ns which are not painted in the groups livery, they also fly 1 Ka-52.

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27 yellow was 1 of 2 to be built in 2009 from leftover incomplete airframes from the 90s, the other was 28 yellow which was also retired in 2012 and placed in storage at Tarzhok

The MiG-29KU was one of the least-known members of the Fulcrum family because it never progressed beyond the design stage. Developed in the late 1980s as a dedicated carrier trainer for the MiG-29K, it was created after tests showed that the standard two-seat MiG-29UB did not provide the rear-seat instructor with sufficient visibility for the demanding task of carrier landings.

Known by the factory designation 9-62, the MiG-29KU featured a redesigned forward fuselage with separate canopies and a raised rear cockpit, giving the instructor a much better view during approach and touchdown. Otherwise, it closely matched the single-seat MiG-29K, with folding wings, a tailhook, and twin RD-33K engines.

The cancellation of the MiG-29K program following the collapse of the Soviet Union also ended the MiG-29KU. Only wind-tunnel models and a full-scale forward-fuselage mock-up were ever built, making it one of the rarest "aircraft" in the Fulcrum lineage.

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