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Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:13 am
by BFMF
I promised Bjorn more photos of some Iraqi Migs. These can be found at the LSA Anaconda Air Force base in Balad, Iraq.

Besides the Migs, there are a couple anti-aircraft guns, an old Chinese Rocket launcher truck, a couple Iraqi tanks, and a lot of other crap...

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And of course, proof that I was there.... ;D

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Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:12 am
by Anark
Wow.  :o

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:14 am
by an-225
Poor old girls...they need someone to renovate them and get them flying again...

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:52 am
by ozzy72
Why is it wherever Americans go in the world they get an urge to graffiti things? Remember that kid in Singapore who got the cane for it? ;D

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:02 am
by Willit Run
Cool Shots!!  8-)

How come you didn't spray paint a message to the SimV world on one of them?  ;D

 It's art not graffiti!!  :D

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:16 am
by BFMF
Why is it wherever Americans go in the world they get an urge to graffiti things?


It's a real shame... :-/


Cool Shots!!  8-)

How come you didn't spray paint a message to the SimV world on one of them?  ;D

 It's art not graffiti!!  :D


I tend to carry ammo, not spray paint in my magazine pouches... ;)

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:22 am
by Willit Run
I tend to carry ammo, not spray paint in my magazine pouches... ;)

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:32 am
by JSpahn
Why is it wherever Americans go in the world they get an urge to graffiti things? Remember that kid in Singapore who got the cane for it? ;D


Hey I remember the Britts writing obscene things on the walls of the bathrooms at Camp Arifjan :P

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:50 am
by BFMF
Hey I remember the Britts writing obscene things on the walls of the bathrooms at Camp Arifjan :P


Everybody does. The Marines, Air Force, Army, & Navy are always talking s**t towards each other on the bathroom walls... ::)

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:52 am
by Tweek
Poor old girls...they need someone to renovate them and get them flying again...


You'd be better off building an entirely new airframe!

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:56 am
by ozzy72
I never did any graffiti in my time in uniform. Mind you I did once tie a corporal to his bed and then we left him in the middle of the rugby pitch next to the runway at RAF Wyton. The noise of the Nimrods (which were temporarily using Wyton) coming in at 3am managed to wake even him... not that he could do much about it with about 30 yards or rope holding him firmly to his bed ;D ;D ;D
Poor Bishop he and the rugby pitch were not friends. He also ended up suspended from the rugby H by his ankles using quite a lot of rope during a party and we then covered his head in shaving foam ;D

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:18 am
by ATI_7500
Those pics actually brought tears to my eyes...

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:27 pm
by flyboy 28
Shame I like the Flogger so much. In my opinion, the nicest looking Soviet built jet ever.

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:54 pm
by Ivan
Those pics actually brought tears to my eyes...

If they had these active in 1991 you could take that literally... some were modified as chem warfare sprayers.

And when did US soldiers learn MSN arabic (3rd one under the elevator)

Re: Iraqi Migs

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:19 pm
by fighter25
Poor old girls...they need someone to renovate them and get them flying again...


You'd be better off building an entirely new airframe!

An-225, the MiGs have been buried in the sand.  ;) You can't restore them.