In 1989, Cuba received a large quantity of second hand MiG-23ML/UBs from the USSR. On Sept. 23, 1993, Capt. Leonidas Basulto Serrano defected with a originally Soviet MiG-23ML fighter to the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay in east Cuba. Later this MiG-23ML was returned to Cuba.

The Chinese 32nd Division's 95th Air Regiment used the Shenyang J-11B huge twin-engine jet fighter for more than fourteen years over the Yellow Sea. These modernized Chinese-made Su-27s defended China against South Korean Air Force and the PACAF Seventh Air Force stationed there.

An early soviet MiG-21UM 'Mongol-B' and a MiG-21PFM 'Fishbed-F' in the eighties Balnaul Higher Military Aviation College Soviet 96th Training Air Regiment at Kamen Na Obi airport

The Meeting of Generations USAF General Atomics MQ-1 Predator and Hungarian MiG-21bis 'Fishbed-N' aircraft at the Taszar airport in southern Hungary in the mid-nineties. The MQ-1 Predator flew over the Balkans at that time.

Two training aircraft from the late sixties. An MiG-21F 'Fishbed-B' (or very early MiG-21F-13) and a Czechoslovakian-made L-29 Delfin. In the Soviet flight schools, the first two years flew in L-29s, then the third and fourth years in MiG-21s.

North Korean MiG-23ML 'Flogger-G' The USSR delivered of about 60 second hand MiG-23 'Flogger's to North Korea during 1985-1986. The silver color that the customer originally used for the MiG-23s was unusual. In the 10s, the Korean MiG-23s received a modern camouflage pattern.

The Soviet Air Defence used subsonic M-17 (MiG-17) absolute realistic airborne targets too during the Cold War in the Soviet Training Center. The conversion took place in the late 60s and throughout the 70s. The transformed MiG-17 aircraft was renamed to M-17M, M-17MM and M-17MNV

The USSR delivered 16 MiG-21PFM and 22 two-seater MiG-21UM training aircraft to Cuba in 1982. These were used at San Julian airport as combat training aircraft. The second half of the MiG-21UMs and the all PFMs, were second-hand aircrafts from the Soviet Tactical Air Force.

Hungarian MiG-21bis 'Fishbed-N' fighter aircraft, with interceptor weapons. Two R-60MK 'Aphid-C' short-range lightweight infrared and two R-3R 'Atoll-C' semi-active radar-homing air-to-air missiles. The aircraft: -Service time: 1976-2000 -All flight time: 2089 hour -Landing: 3473

Soviet Long-Range Aviation, 200th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment at Babruysk AB, Byelorussian SSR. This regiment replaced the older Tu-16 bombers with Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber in 1986. The regiment was tasked with destroying Western European targets during the Cold War

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It originally the 4th Guards Naval Attack Aviation Regiment. Now in the Russian 6th Air and Air Defence Army subordination. Currently uses older Su-24M/MR and more recent Su-30SM/SM2 airplanes in the Kaliningrad region.