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                        Vietnam War
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | This and the following two pictures show the characteristing North Vietnamese SA-2 sites, all with their "star"-pattern. | 
                         
                        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | At least as interesting were North Vietnamese AAA-sites, like this one, with 57mm AAA guns. | 
                         
                        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      
                        Egypt, 1970-1973
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | Egyptian SA-2 site in Sinai, photographed by IDF/AF F-4Es during an attack. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | The same site several moments later, while being hit by several Mk.82s. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | This is an Egyptian decoy SA-2 site, captured by the Israelis in 1973 north of the Suez City. | 
                         
                        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      
                        Syria, 1982
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | Sadly, no photos of whole Syrian SAM-sites are available yet: this photograph shows only a part of a Syrian SA-6 site built near the Beirut-Damascus highway, and overlooking the Bekaa Valley, in early 1982. | 
                         
                        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      
                        I Persian Gulf War, 1980-1988
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | An Iraqi SA-2 site, as seen from the RF-4E at which it was firing, in 1982. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | This is an Iraqi SA-3 site, again photographed by Iranian RF-4E (note the shade of the Phantom in the lower right corner). | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | This is also an Iraqi SA-3 site, but this time some 40km SW from Basrah (actually, this was one of the sites defending as-Shoibiyah AB from the south), photographed by high-flying RF-4E in 1986. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | There are - sadly - not many known photographs showing western-type of SAM-sites. This one is the Iranian MIM-23B site on the small Khark Island, photographed in 1986 (note the orange circle); sadly, not many details can be seen. | 
                         
                        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      
                        II Persian Gulf War, 1991
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | A better view of a Fansong radar as seen during a display in Iraq, in 1989 or 1990. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | An Iraqi Flat Face radar as seen during defence exhibition in 1989. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | Iraqi Fansong radar, captured by US troops in 1991... | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | On the same site also this SA-2 was captured... | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | ...and another one, still on its transport trailer. | 
                         
                        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      
                        Bosnia, 1995 & Kosovo, 1999
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | P-35 radar of the former Yugoslav Air Force and Air Defence Force (JRViPVO), seen in a typical position atop a hill. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | S-75MK Fansong radar as seen in service with the former JRViPVO. | 
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        
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                          | An interesting series of photographs showing the re-loading process of a SA-2 Guideline SAM... | 
                         
                        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      
                        
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                          | Some Bosnian Serb SA-2 equipment, photographed in mid-1990s at one of several UN-collection points. | 
                         
                        
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                      Striking Flankers, Part 2
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                      Striking Flankers, Part 1
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                      Exotic Fulcrums
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                      French ECM-pods
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                      Lockheed F-94 Starfire
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                      The Soviet Navy ‘Forger’: Yak-36M, Yak-38, Yak-38U and Yak-38M
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                      Mil-Helicopters in World-Wide Service, Part 3
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                      Mil-Helicopters in World-Wide Service, Part 2
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                      Mil-Helicopters in World-Wide Service, Part 1
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                      Bomarc
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                      Falcon and Genie: Two Little-Known US Air-to-Air Missiles
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                      Bear Hunters, Part 5: ASW Style
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                      F-14 Tomcat with USN, Part 4
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                      F-14 Tomcat with USN, Part 3
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                      F-14 Tomcat with USN, Part 2
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                      F-14 Tomcat with USN, Part 1
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                      Sukhoi Su-30 MKI
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                      Portfolio: RQ-1 Predators in USAF service
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                      Potfolio: SAM-sites through History, Part 2
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                      Portfolio: SAM-sites through History, Part 1
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                      Mirage F.1s in Combat
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                      New F-16s
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                      Gone With the Wind
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                      Portfolio: USN "Aggressors"
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 9: UK
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 8: Spain & Turkey
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 7: South Korea
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 6: Iran
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 5: Greece
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 4: Japan
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 3: Israel
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 2: Germany
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                      Phantoms Phorever, Part 1: Australia & Egypt
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                      Dassault Rafale
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                      MiG-29M2
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                      MiG-21, Part 2
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                      MiG-21, Part 1
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                      Su-27: Russia's Top Fighter of the Cold War?
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                      Bear Hunters, Part 4
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                      Bear Hunters, Part 3: Collision with Flanker
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                      Bear Hunters, Part 2: Korean Style
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                      Bear-Hunters, Part 1
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                      The Big "MiG"-Question
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                      Kfir C.10
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                      MiG-29 Fulcrum
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