Armada de Mexican Su-27K

[anthonyp]

ARIBA, COMRADES!!!!!

It is I, Antonio, reporting from where it is much colder than I wish it was.  Pictured below is Mexico's newest fighter, for use off of the Orgullo de México, our newest carrier.  We purchased the fighters and the carrier (a sister to the Russian Kuznetsov) in a package deal that included us giving them tequilla, and tacos.  For some reason, the Russians really like that combination, about as much as they like vodka and bread.

But I digress.

Some of you will be laughing, but I tell you, only Mexico has the cojones to take some of the most advanced weapons systems in the world, and arm them with such obsolete weapons!  But even the lowly AIM-4D Falcon is frightening in the hands of a Mexican Armada pilot.

VIVA MEXICO!!!!

(Comrades, I, Anatoly, must interject here.  They bought the planes and the ship, forgetting they had to arm and fuel them in order to get any use out of them.  We suggested they use whatever they could find, and we'd integrate the Commodore 64 needed for fire control.  They get a status symbol, we get their GLORIOUS tequilla and tacos.  I tell you, comrades, Russia has not been this regular since the days of Stalin!  DOWN WITH THE DECADENT WEST!!!)

This one came to me while in a very, very odd state of mind.  It was after I'd already gotten the Latin American kick out of my system, but I had these Su-27K's sitting around doing nothing.  I had some Mexican decals that I didn't know what to do with.  I put the two together, and came up with a Mexican Su-27K.  But that wasn't nearly enough to make it suitably weird enough for me.

I had all these weapons sitting around I had no idea what to do with.  I had four missiles from an Airfix Buccaneer set that I wanted to make into Sea Eagles, but I lost the air intake, so they reverted to Martels.  Russian missiles would not do.  Not sure why, they just wouldn't.  I decided to mount two AIM-4D's on the wings (since I see no real use for Falcons, really), and two Super 530D missiles.  I then added the four Martels, and voila, instant Mexican Sea Flanker.

And with that, there's no more finished models.

[anthonyp]

another view

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top side, aft.

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top side, front.

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underside

[dexter059]

       
Funny stuf, and great build. Just to point, about the bakstory though, not the plane:

"Cajones" means "boxes", the word you´re looking for it´s "Cojones"....
"Mexican Navy" should be "Armada de Mexico"...
"Comrades" translates to "Camaradas" in Spanish..

Anyway, I´m still laughing with the story.....I know I know, how can I correct your spanish being my english bad written and spelled...      

cheers  

[anthonyp]

I claim ignorance (took French in high school and college)  

Thanks for the edits, though!

   

[lancer]

Just like Dexter, I am having trouble stopping laughing!!. The back story is brilliant, especially the bit about the Commadore 64 fire control, And it damm good to see Comrade Anatoly again.  

[Joe C-P]

May I offer an extra level of back story to make this less unlikely? How about Mexico never lost California, so its a lot bigger and richer?

Great idea, and love the back story!  :ar:  

[gooberliberation]

I claim ignorance (took French in high school and college)  

Thanks for the edits, though!

 

 I took three years of spanish and I wouldntve caught any of that. What WAS i doing in class??

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

 
Very good backstory!!

And the plane is wonderful!! I thought about Mexican Gripen, Mexican F-16, Mexican Mirage 2000 but never thought about Mexican Flanker! And well, you is brillant!!

Just a few question: where do the decals come from?? There is a kit with a Mexican plane available?? Or are they Aztech decals?


Oh yeah: another little thing; you wrote

with such obsolete weapons

I'm OK for the AIM-4 and the Martels, but the Super 530 D is not very obsolete
This missile is more modern than the Sparrow and the R-27, with first deployments in the early 1990, "look down, shoot down" ability, and a capacity of destroy a Mach 3 plane at +70 000 ft!!

So, older than the new MICA, AMRAAM and R-77, but not totally obsolete  


And well, I have to admit that your mix of Martel, 530 and Falcons is very... unusuall and very funny too !

[dexter059]

I took three years of spanish and I wouldntve caught any of that. What WAS i doing in class??

¿Drinking beer perhaps?        
cheers  

[Radish]

           

[gooberliberation]

I took three years of spanish and I wouldntve caught any of that. What WAS i doing in class??

¿Drinking beer perhaps?        
cheers

That and flirting with my teacher.

Is that the italeri kit with the butt-join canards?

[anthonyp]

COMRADES!!!

It is I, Anatoly, answering your questions and accepting your accolades, though only because I am on holiday in Cuba, as accepting anything for personal glory is contrary to the GLORIOUS socialist teachings of the Motherland.  Antonio is passed out under a palm tree at present.  It seems decadent Westerners have no tolerance for vodka.

This is indeed a corrupt Western company Italeri 1/72 Su-27K, with the butt joint canards.  Some modification was done to the "stinger" on the plane to shorten it up, even more so than what we use on the GLORIOUS aircraft carrier Kuznetzov.  The decals come from the Aztec Decals Mexico set (seen here: http://www.aztecmodels.com/azt_prin.htm ).

And comrade PD7, while it is true the Super 530D is not obsolete, Mexico's use of the Commodore (Comradodore?) 64 fire control computer makes the missiles quite impotent, especially when compared to Mother Russia's unchanged Su-27K/AA-12 combination.  Even the lazy and corrupt West's F/A-18E/AIM-120 combination is more effective, but only barely.  In test firings, we were lucky if we got 3-D maneuvering out of the missiles.  They usually only went straight, and changed altitude.  A peculiarity of the decadent Western Commodore 64, I imagine.

Comrade IosefP, it warms my communist heart to see the builder of the Sovietski Soyuz here.  Thank you for your suggestions to rewriting the failed history of the West, but I do not think even Mexico would want that insane state.  Tell me, comrade, how goes the ship building in St. Petersburg?  Any new ships for the fleet?

Comrade Colonel Lancerov, it has been too long since the last witch hunt.  Shall we begin by naming suspected agents of the lazy West?  If so, we should keep an eye on comrade Major Olivienev Jakovitch Lacombski...  I hear he troublemakes, in the name of the decadent, yet respectable, Western nation of Canada.

UP THE REVOLUTION, TOVARISH!!!

LONG LIVE THE MOTHERLAND!!!!!  

(mariachi band music plays)