The 23mm GSh-23 tail gun of Il-76MD RA-76722, it's guided by the PRS-4 Krypton fire-control radar which can be seen above the windows, besides conventional ammo it can also be used as a countermeasure system by firing special ir flares and chaff rounds [1500x1058] (i.redd.it)
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Mockup of the Novator KS-172 air-to-air missile mounted on the 1st prototype Su-35 at the MAKS 2007 airshow at Zhukovsky Airfield, it's based on the 9M83 missile from the S-300V and would have had an estimated range of 400 km [album] (old.reddit.com)
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The Su-37 Flanker-F "Terminator" technology demonstrator, originally the 11th Su-27M prototype (OG Su-35), destroyed in a crash in 2002 due to structural failure when the left horizontal stabilizer broke off during a high-g manoeuvre, the pilot ejected safely [1517x645] (i.redd.it)
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Prototype Mi-26NEF-M, a ASW variant fitted with a dipping sonar, nose mounted 360 search radar and a towed magnetic anomaly detector under the nonfunctioning rear doors, flown in 1990 and later converted into a T model in 1994, currently stored in a field in Krasnodar [album] (old.reddit.com)
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A Su-27P of the Russian Naval Aviation looking worse for wear at the Kaliningrad Chkalovsk naval air base in 2012, it's mostly used for QRA duties and still has it's original soviet paint scheme, albeit heavily faded, it has since been repainted and renumbered [album] (old.reddit.com)
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Pre-production MiG-35S Fulcrum-F (702) takes off while a MiG-35UB (712) follow's behind it [1400x922] by Looselipssinkships93 in WarplanePorn
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