Mig 28

[Devilfish]

In 1986 in the Indian Ocean, naval aviators from the USS Enterprise encountered the Mig 28 for the first time.  Shortly afterwards, a USN vessel lost power and drifted into the territorial waters of a hostile nation, and Mig 28s, armed with Exocet missiles were sent out to intercept it.  Luckily, on this second occasion, the Enterprise sent its F-14s to defend the stricken ship.

Kit is the Monogram 1/48 F-5E with home made decals.

20190916_223608 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20190916_223616 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20190916_223620 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
20190916_223628 by Paul Carter, on Flickr

[Caveman]

 

[zenrat]

 

[TheChronicOne]

     I love it....  been seeing variations of this lately.... coincidences abound.    Great work!!!

[Scotaidh]

Maybe that's the next Group Build - build your version of the MiG-28? 

[nighthunter]

To be fair this whiff is completely feasible in reality. After the Vietnam War, the Soviets got their hands on a lot of Republic of Vietnam AF F-5's and tested them out. Who's to say that they didn't have MiG reverse engineer the F-5 into the MiG-28... 

[ChernayaAkula]

Nice one! 

The backstory sounds familiar..... 

To be fair this whiff is completely feasible in reality. After the Vietnam War, the Soviets got their hands on a lot of Republic of Vietnam AF F-5's and tested them out. Who's to say that they didn't have MiG reverse engineer the F-5 into the MiG-28... 

The interesting whiffery comes once the Soviets take the design and evolve it. A Soviet equivalent to the F-20, kinda. RD-33 engine (MiG-29), GSh-23 cannon under the belly....

[Devilfish]

Nice one! 

The backstory sounds familiar..... 

To be fair this whiff is completely feasible in reality. After the Vietnam War, the Soviets got their hands on a lot of Republic of Vietnam AF F-5's and tested them out. Who's to say that they didn't have MiG reverse engineer the F-5 into the MiG-28... 

The interesting whiffery comes once the Soviets take the design and evolve it. A Soviet equivalent to the F-20, kinda. RD-33 engine (MiG-29), GSh-23 cannon under the belly....

Hmmmmm....I have a Monogram F-20 that I bought alongside this F-5E....I mean Mig 28

[zenrat]

To be fair this whiff is completely feasible in reality. After the Vietnam War, the Soviets got their hands on a lot of Republic of Vietnam AF F-5's and tested them out. Who's to say that they didn't have MiG reverse engineer the F-5 into the MiG-28... 

In OTL they had no need to, they already had the MiG 21 filling the same role (and looking better doing it).  However in whiff world anything is possible.

[Devilfish]

I feel a "Mig 30" coming on.....

[Rick Lowe]

I feel a "Mig 30" coming on.....

Ah feel thuh need - thuh need fer some MiG-ish Foolishness!

[Tophe]

I feel a "Mig 30" coming on.....

Maybe I could try to transform this MiG-28 model into a zwilling MiG-56 zwilling (picture with Photopaint software), no?

[zenrat]

How about going the other way?
MiG 19s with stars and bars as they looked when playing capitalist running dog fighters F<insert appropriate unused number here> from the Pravda Studios movie Top Gunski...

[Tophe]

MiG 19s with stars and bars as they looked when playing capitalist running dog fighters F<insert appropriate unused number here> from the Pravda Studios movie Top Gunski...

it is not "playing" but very true: in Russian, "Pravda" means "Truth"!

[Snowtrooper]

To be fair this whiff is completely feasible in reality. After the Vietnam War, the Soviets got their hands on a lot of Republic of Vietnam AF F-5's and tested them out. Who's to say that they didn't have MiG reverse engineer the F-5 into the MiG-28... 

In OTL they had no need to, they already had the MiG 21 filling the same role (and looking better doing it).  However in whiff world anything is possible.

In OTL the Soviets found the F-5E superior to the MiG-21 though
https://warisboring.com/the-soviets-grabbed-an-american-f-5-fighter-from-vietnam/

Notice the authentic MiG-28 colour scheme, too

How about going the other way?
MiG 19s with stars and bars as they looked when playing capitalist running dog fighters F<insert appropriate unused number here> from the Pravda Studios movie Top Gunski...

Nah, the Soviet school of filmmaking relied either on the real thing (cf. in the clumsy propaganda movie, Coordinates of Death, US hardware is portrayed by what was captured in South Vietnam) or "the Airwolf method", recycled newsreel footage (cf. Solo Voyage, supposedly one of the most expensive Soviet action movies; on the other hand, infantry weapons in the hands of main antagonists cannot be faked by such method, but at least they aren't wielding AK's - the "Americans" in the film use StG 44's and ZB 26's (the father of its better known licence version, Bren) as infantry weapons).

Outside the movies, though, the Soviets did have an aggressor program too. Very little documentation exists of what was the "1521st Aviation Base Unit" (officially just a waystation for planes going to and from Afganistan), but they used MiG-21bis, MiG-23MLD, and later MiG-29A/C/UB as dedicated aggressors, originally painted in standard camo but modified by the unit to better resemble Americans. Established in 1974 though, so MiG-19 was probably not used very much anymore if at all by them. HOWEVER, earlier in timeline the VVS had used planes from various squadrons/regiments so who knows how they were painted so stars-and-bars '19 is at least semi-plausible.
https://thelexicans.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/soviet-aggressor-program/
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-unknown-story-of-the-soviet-mig-29-aggressor-unit-tasked-to-simulate-usaf-f-15-fighters/
http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/division/schools/1521tsb.htm