SU-25 Frogfoot Footage
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erolb

Original Poster:

506 posts

216 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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Nice article on a pilot who decided to lug a huge Panasonic video cam with him on his Frogfoot operations in Tajikistan. Footage included,

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/07/31/the-...

Mr Dave

3,233 posts

224 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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Some camera to take up with him! Mental yeah Ill just hold this camera here while dumping a load of rockets on some blokes.

Great picture of the Frogfoot between the two buildngs too.

shouldbworking

4,801 posts

241 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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Seriously ugly aircraft though smile at least to my eyes

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

291 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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This lot are worse than the Yanks.

davepoth

29,395 posts

228 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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You do wonder how that worked in the cockpit really, it looks like quite a tight squeeze anyway.

Simpo Two

92,631 posts

294 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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It has something of the Tornado about it.

erolb

Original Poster:

506 posts

216 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2010
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I read somewhere the design was ripped from the Northrop A9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_A-9

You can kind of see it in the wings. Not sure whether this story holds any water. I've always had a soft spot for rugges, ugly ground attack aircraft.


SVX

2,188 posts

240 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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To my mind the jet pipes have a little look of a Buccaneer about them....

JVaughan

6,025 posts

312 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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SVX said:
To my mind the jet pipes have a little look of a Buccaneer about them....
Buccaneer / Alpha Jet