I have photographed several An-12's both Civil and military. All have the smaller radome.
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I got the Roden 1/72 An-12BK Cub Civil and it has both the small and
> the big radar radome. The instructions sheet tells that civil aircraft
> had the small radome (seems with a simpler radar), while military Cubs
> had the bigger one.
>
> However I saw also photos of military Cubs with the small radome (for
> example there's a lot of nice photos from Ken Duffey on a recent issue
> "Model Aircraft Monthly") so maybe the difference instead is between
> early/late production aircraft or cargo/special duties ones? Any help? >
> I saw also an interesting photo of an An-12 in an issue of World
> Airpower Journal about the russian forces in Germany. This aircraft
> (Red 93, small radome) was rather unusual because it had a dark grey
> finish instead of the usual light grey one. From the photo it seems
> something like gunship gray (maybe a little greenish, it's difficult
> to tell from a single photo). Does anyone have more data on that > plane?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Yuri Rambelli