Re: Mig-31 with Aphids

Does anybody have any info whether the Mig-31B (with the refueling probe)

> can carry those dual Aphid launchers on outer wing pylons? > I have seen the later versions carrying Adders but not these Aphid > launchers. > > Thanks for any help..

Issue 3/99 of the Russian magazine 'Mir Aviatsiya' has the following....

A colour photo of 'Blue 51' that has a refueling probe and an empty APU-60-2NM (R-60/Aphid) launcher on the port wing.

A B&W photo of a probe-equipped MiG-31 (Bort 10) with the same empty pylon.

A B&W photo captioned as a 'MiG-31B' (Bort 45) with the pylon fitted with 2 x R-60's on the starboard pylon and R-33's under the belly.

A colour side view of 'Blue 74' captioned 'MiG-31B c/n 38401209136 786th IAP, Pravdinsk, 1995. This is shown with 4 x R-33's and two R-60's on the port pylon.

A B&W photo of captioned as 'Red 45' with Aphid's on port & Stbd pylons - it has an IFR probe.

A close-up B&W photo showing the R-60's and the pylon.

The back page has a colour photo showing two R-60M SRAAM's on an APU-6-NM launcher 9but it doesn't identify the exaxt MiG-321 variant .

It also has some excellent pull-out 1:72 scale drawings - including a probe-equipped MiG-31 with R-60's.

You might want to check out my MiG-31 photos on Linden Hill's website at :-

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I can't remember if there are any with R-60's - but check out Mikhail Poutnikov's stunning photos !

Hope this helps.........

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Duffey" Newsgroups: rec.models.scale Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:36 PM Subject: Re: Mig-31 with Aphids

Been there, done that.. :)

No, really, I have a couple of dozen photos of Mig-31.. I guess I just made a confusion by mentioning the IFR..

What I wanted to ask is whether *any* Mig-31 can carry that twin R-60 launcher on outer wing pylons (the ones which carry fuel tanks). I wanted to put both Acrids and Aphids so the plane has the full weapon complement (short, medium and long range missiles) like it's counterpart of some kind - the Tomcat..

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the info.. If you have smth more specific, that would be excellent..

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White oil in water, sprayed twice a day will fix the problem.

RobG (the Aussie one)

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Rob Grinberg

It took me a few seconds - then the penny dropped !

Nice one !

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