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01 May 2012

New article to discover > here. The latter can be reached through the entry entitled "Various topics" in the sitemap; it replaces the former entry entitled "Exercises-deployments-training".
A conclusion paragraph has been added to the Mi-6 chapter.
"Special weapons, part 3": a new map has been added next to footnote n°1.
In case you wouldn't have seen it yet, two badges and a new footnote (n°2) have been added to the article "Plowing up People's Potatoes".
New MiG-27/MiG-23UB pictures:
19.GvAPIB : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
296.APIB : 1 - 2
559 APIB : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
New Yak-28R picture.

30 March 2012

New MLM story by Bill Burhans : "Plowing up People's Potatoes".
A new unconventional photo gallery can be reached through a new link entitled "A real success story" at the bottom of the article "Hind at Retzow".
Update of the 16.VA order of battle: see 113.OSAE at the bottom of the page.
The b/w MiG-23M picture illustrating the third part of the article "Special Weapons" is now a clickable image. It opens a new page showing another picture of the same aircraft with an updated caption.
The capiton of this Mi-24 picture has been updated.
New pictures in the "After the battle" photo gallery: MiG-23MLD / MiG-29 / Su-25BM / Mi-24R.

29 February 2012

The updated introduction chapter about the Army Aviation is now available in English language.
The target-towing units: the UFOs from Greifswald are finally well identified.
The MiG-25PD photo page is now a standard photo gallery with new images.
The gate guardians: new UTI MiG-15 picture.
Firing ranges photo gallery: new picture of the last MiG-17 on the Wittstock range.
A link for a new Google Earth file about the Wittstock firing range can be found at the bottom of this page.

20 January 2012

The Mi-24 chapter is online. When you browse through the chapter, you will find a link to the Mi-24 photo gallery and also a link to a new Militrary Liaison Mission story - French this time.
The Mi-24A photo caption from the article "Hind at Retzow" has been extended - see the second paragraph.
A new B/W picture illustrates the chapter 4.6 The Air Operations and the Withdrawal.
New pictures in the open days photo gallery: 1 - 2.
Mi-6 photo gallery : a general view of Nohra with its Mi-22 has been added.
If you have not seen it yet, a new footnote (n°8) has been added to the artilce "Politics, Reconnaissance and Women."

24 November 2011

A new story - very different from those already published before - about the Military Liaison Missions has been uploaded.
As a logical follow up of that update, the page and the sitemap entry entitled 'USMLM stories' have been logically retitled 'Military Liaison Missions stories'.
However, the address of that page remains unchanged.
The caption of this Mi-22 picture has been updated.
The next site update should be about the Mi-24 chapter and its photo gallery.

9 October 2011

The Rangsdorf page has been updated and moreover, it is now available in English language.
New footnote (n° 1) added to the Cochstedt SA-4 deployment page.
New link about the Southern Group of Forces (Hungary): click on the banner entitled 'Secrets of the Soviet airbase'.

9 September 2011

New article : "Cochstedt SA-4 deployment".
The new bases and/or the situation after their return to Russia of some units have been updated in the chapter 4.6 entitiled "The air operations and the withdrawal": 9.OVE BU, 292.OVE REB, 336.OBVP, 337.OBVP, 440.OVP BU, 485.OVP BU, and 487.OVP BU.
Also, a new footnote has been added.
Same background story added to two MiG-21R pictures: 1, 2.
New link about ELINT (click on the cirucular logo).
The Mi-24 chapter will be online hopefully before the year's end.

29 July 2011

28 June 2011

Major update of the Mi-6 page, which is now also about the Mi-10. Moreover, it is now available in English.
New photo captions: 1 - 2
New pictures: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8
New photo gallery: Paratroopers support.

28 April 2011

New article : Altenburg Squadron "Flush".
Although a lot of material is waiting in the queue to be uploaded on the site, new updates will be rarer and less important during the next weeks. I am indeed working essentially on the next Mi-24 chapter and its photo gallery until it is completed. The waiting should be worthwhile.
You can now be kept informed when the site is updated: have a look at the top of this page.

09 March 2011

New article: Hind at Retzow (USMLM stories)
LABS at Gadow-Rossow: new video link at the bottom of the page
Two new pictures in the ground-attack Su-24 photo gallery (the 4th and the last one)
New picture of a Su-24 from the 497.BAP ('After the battle' gallery)
A few pictures have been added to the Su-24MP photo gallery
New caption about the "Otlichniy Samolet" badge on this MiG-29 photo page (The fighters, part 2)

21 February 2011

Fourth part of the chapter about reconnaissance:
- New MiG-25 picture
- MiG-25 n°55 photo caption corrected
- New article in English linked to that page: Jamming the Foxbat
- New article in English linked to that page and the page 'USMLM stories': Let's go get Foxbat!
- New images in the MiG-25 photo gallery.

03 February 2011

The chapter about the target-towing units has been updated: text and images. It is now available in English or in French only.
New colour profile in the third part of the chapter about the special weapons.

01 January 2011

21 December 2010

New page about the long-range aviation bomber visits to GDR. It can be reached through the "Exercises - deployments - training" page.
New MiG-21R picture
New Su-17M3R + recce pod: the last two images of this gallery
Four B/W general images of the Merseburg open day added to the open days gallery.

01 December 2010

14 November 2010

New article entitled 'Mission 5489'. The latter can be reached through a link at the bottom of the 'Border patrol' page or through the extended sitemap.
EDIT: this article has been removed from the site because its author is not reliable.

30 October 2010

The "Border Patrol" page presentation has changed: it is now available in English language (or French) only and new pictures have been added. A new video link is included with footnote n°3.
A new Google Earth photo of the Allstedt SA-3 site has been added at the bottom of the first part of the article 'My first back-seat tour'.
Two new pictures of a Yak-28R of the 11.ORAP.
MiG-27 photo gallery:
- 4 new pictures in the folder 'Withdrawal day'.
- New MiG-27.
- Two new pictures of armed MiG-27K in this folder.
- New MiG-23UB.

18 October 2010

New article : "My first back-seat tour". It can be reached through the "USMLM stories" page.
Caption changed for this An-22 picture.
New links : LSK/LV & SAM systems.
Two new videos about the 178.OVP.

06 October 2010

New article 'Total mobilization'. It can be reached through the 'Exercises - deployments - training' page.
New Mi-10P picture on the page "The Armeiskaya Aviatsiya in Germany".
Preserved Mi-24V - new picture.
"After the battle" gallery : Su-24MR of the 11.ORAP
                                        New MiG-29 pictures (last picture on page 2 + pages 3 and 4).

20 September 2010

Sitemap: you will find on top of the sitemap, under the 'Extended sitemap' entry, a new link entitled 'Photo galleries'. You can reach now the main photo galleries from that new page. The secondary galleries are not listed on that page because most of them will be removed in the future. They will be either merged with the existing main galleries or transformed into main galleries when new pictures are added. In the meantime, use the extended sitemap to reach them more quickly. The quality of some pictures will be improved progressively.
There is also a new entry lower in the sitemap in the left column. It is entitiled "Exercises - deployments - training". You will find on that page the titles of new articles that will be added to the site in the future.
The 'Links' page which included also links to videos has been split. A specific 'Videos' page is now available. Note however that the video links relative to the military liaison missions are still on the 'Links' page.

A new article 'Hawk strike: analysis' is online although in French language only for the moment.
New pictures in the firing ranges gallery: Belgern and Unidentified folders. Some pictures that were in the 'Unidentified' folder have been moved to the 'Wittstock' folder.
The 'After the battle' photo gallery about aircraft still operational or in storage in Russia has been reorganised and new pictures have been added:
- MiG-23MLD (Lipetsk 2010)
- MiG-29: Strijis and last pictures
- Mi-24: Berdsk and Vjazma
New picture of a preserved MiG-27K.
New caption for this MIG-29 picture.
New 833.IAP MiG-23MLD and MiG-23UB pictures.
20.GvAPIB: new picture of the Su-17 with a sharkmouth together with the pilots of the second squadron and picture of the cover of a 1988 magazine with an article about Gross Dölln Su-17s.

07 September 2010

The history of the 19th Guards regiment (Lärz) is online.
The sitemap presentation has changed. It is now available in English or French language only.
The article "LABS at Gadow-Rossow" was the first one of a serie about USMLM. A special entry "USMLM stories" has already been added to the sitemap. It will be possible to reach directly those articles through that entry in the near future.

25 August 2010

The 'LABS at Gadow-Rossow range' article has been corrected.

09 August 2010

27 July 2010

14 July 2010

New pictures in the MiG-27 photo gallery:
- 296.APIB: aircraft n°02 / 06 / 08 / 10 / 14 / 20 / 23
- 911.APIB: aircraft n°07 / 15 / 16 / 21 / 33
New video about a lecture on the USMLM mission: on the links page under the Military Liaison Missions title.

02 July 2010

Hawk batteries, part 5 : the footnote contains new information (on top).
The transport, part 3 : new An-22 picture.
The Su-17M3R photo gallery is now the MiG-21R and Su-17M3R photo gallery with new pictures.

19 June 2010

The MiG-27 photo page is online.

24 April 2010

New MiG-25 picture on the page 'Intercepting the Blackbird'.
New MiG-25PD photo page.
New Su-24 'Fencer-B' (colour) picture.
Mi-6A general view at Oranienburg.
New 730.APIB Su-17 pictures : 1 - 2
New Su-24MP.
New Su-25 pictures (357.OChAP) : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
New Su-25 pictures in Russia : 1 - 2
Three new videos about BRIXMIS can be reached through the links page (Cold War spies: BRIXMIS interviews).

01 April 2010

Update about MiG-27 units here.
New picture at the bottow of the 'Border patrol' page.
Two new Su-25 pictures in the 'After the battle' gallery.
Three new 33.IAP MiG-29 pictures: the last three of this gallery.
New picture of pilots on the 'Air operations' page.

18 March 2010

New pictures:
- Su-24MP
- An-12
- MiG-17
- Old MiG-29 31 & 33.IAP
A link to a navigation chart has been added at the bottom of the "Shooring ranges, known users" page.
Short video about Brand added to the links page.
Two videos added under the "Military Liaison Missions" section of the links page.

07 March 2010

The Hawk batteries chapter is online in English.

04 March 2010

New toss bombing schema.
New pictures:
MiG-21UM 33.IAP
MiG-23MLD and UB
Armed Su-25
Yak-28I
New 19.GvAPIB video - check "More flying at Lärz" in the links section.

21 february 2010

New MiG-23MLD, MIG-27K and Su-17M4 pictures in the After the battle photo gallery.
Some links have been added to the Su-17 photo gallery in the 730.APIB folder. The links show the same aircraft in 20.GvAPIB colours.

14 february 2010

Corrections and précisions about MiG-27 equipments : check the two pictures at the bottom of this page.
Corrections and précisions MiG-29S.
New pictures:
MiG-29 968.IAP
Su-25 357.OShAP
An-14
Su-7BM 19.GvIBAP
MiG-21SMT 33.IAP

09 february 2010

Equipments identified : FKP-58 and PA-10 pods. See B/W picture on this page and MiG-27 n°26 picture. Picture of a FKP-58 pod in this gallery (middle of the page).
The Su-24 photo page has been moved. It is now here with new Su-24M pictures.

02 february 2010

Niew link "Status of aerial reconnaissance in 1960" added on the Border patrol page.
Niew MiG-21 picture on fighter-bombers older pictures page.
Niew pictures (MiG-27K and Su-24M) in the "Ater the battle" gallery.
Niew video link (337.OVP à Berdsk).

30 January 2010

A new diagram (nuclear bomber and fighter-bomber units in 1967) has been added to the first part of the chapter "3.8 Special weapons".
A new photo gallery with older pictures of transport aircraft is online.

28 January 2010

The first part of the new chapter The attack of the Hawk missiles sites had been slightly changed to to avoid any ambiguity.

26 January 2010

The chapter about the attack of the Hawk missiles sites is now online in English. The previous chapter will be translated in English in a few weeks.

10 January 2010

The pages about the Hawk batteries are now online although in French language only for the moment.

06 January 2010

The chapter entitled Prisoners of the 'Red Army' in now online in Englilsh.

03 January 2010

A new page with older fighter-bombers pictures is online.

28 December 2009

The chapter about the 16.VA has a new link for a statistics page.
Some details have been added to the paragraph about Su-24 in the same chapter.
The third part of the chapter about special weapons has a new footnote.
A new footnote has been added as well to the air operations chapter.
A picture related to the deployments on reserve airfields has been added to the airbases page.

14 December 2009

The chapter 4.6 The air operations and the withdrawal (Army Aviation) is now online in English language.

10 December 2009

A new video can be reached through the reconnaissance chapter. It can be reached also through the links page.

27 November 2009

The new chapter 3.8 Special weapons in now online.
A new picture is on top of the fighters older pictures page.
Another one has been added to the 730.APIB older pictures page.
A link has been added to the page 'Units relocations in Russia' (check 33.IAP).

19 November 2009

A new link entitled "Cold War airborne spying missions" has been added to the Border Patrol page.
Two b/w pictures have been added to the first part of the chapter about the reconnaissance.
A new link for a video (MiG-23M) has been added to the links page.
A glossary is online since a few days.

13 November 2009

Zaur Eylanbekov of FoxbatFiles.com has kindly provided some artworks for the site.
A first one can be seen on this page and a second one here.

28 October 2009

The page 3.6 Air operations is now available in English.

26 October 2009

New information have been added to the following pages:
- Airbases - airstrips - shooting ranges
- Shooting ranges
New pictures :
- 730.APIB older pictures
- The fighters part 1
- After the battle

19 October 2009

Two new pictures/plans have been added to the shooting ranges photo gallery (Heidehof and Wittstock).
A new 20.GvAPIB Su-17M3 is available here.
A new page entitled MiG-23UB or MiG-23UM? is online.

15 October 2009

The 16.VA page is now online in English.

11 October 2009

The fighters second part presentation (and to a lesser extent the fourth part) has been changed. Informations about the badge worn by some 968.IAP aircraft has been added.
The page "Units relocations in Russia" is active.

06 October 2009

Two B/W pictures have been added to the An-2 photo gallery.
New pictures have been added to the MiG-29 photo gallery.

04 October 2009

Introduction page is available in English.
New links added to the airbases - airstrips - shooting ranges page.

03 October 2009

02 October 2009

An important update of the AA order of battle has been done.
The caption of the Mi-8PPA picture on "Border Patrol" page has more information.

29 September 2009

Some changes have been made to the "Border patrol" page: a new information has been added to the footnote n°6, a MMFL link has been changed and a
C-130 picture has been changed in the photo gallery.
The 226.OSAP older pictures page has received more pictures.
A new photo gallery about Schönefeld airport visitors is online.
The Su-25 photo gallery has new images (357.OShAP).

22 September 2009

A diagram of the Heidehof shooting range has been added to the shooting ranges photo gallery.
New references have been added to the multimedia page.

17 September 2009

The Airbases - airstrips - shooting ranges page is now available in English through the English part of the sitemap.
New pictures have been added to the Su-17 photo gallery.
A Su-17M3R photo gallery has been created with stolen B/W pictures

16 September 2009

The "Google Earth" entry which was on the sitemap but not yet active has been removed. Instead, a new active link to download Google Earth files has been added at the bottom of the Airbases - airstrips - shooting ranges page. The same link has been added to the "Border patrol" page.
The "Airbases - airstrips - shooting ranges" page will be translated into English ASAP.
An air-to-ground picture of the Mi-6 dispersals at Oranienburg has been added to the Mi-6 photo gallery.

15 September 2009

A new picture has been added to the Night flights page.
New pictures have been added to the Shooting ranges photo page.

14 September 2009

A new picture is on top of the "Target towing flights" page.
A picture of MiG-25 b-n 38 has been added at the end of the photo gallery about aircrafts still operational in Russia

12 september 2009

16.VA will be disbanded on first December.
Some new pictures added :
- Photo gallery An-2 (1)
- Photo gallery 226.OSAP (An-24)
- Photo gallery VTA (An-12 / Tu-134)
- Photo gallery Su-17 (730.APIB)
- Page "Strike forces part 3" : one Su-17 with missile
- "Border patrol" page (1)

09 September 2009

The links page has been updated with new links to 19 and 20.GvAPIB videos.

07 September 2009

Yesterday evening, was the 15th anniversary of the departure from Germany of the last 16.VA aircraft. Antonov An-12 b-n 96 left Sperenberg at 20H40 and overflew the base at low level before bidding farewell with some flares.

04 September 2009

The ultimate fate of 33.IAP has been added to the page "33.IAP aircraft shifts".

03 September 2009

The end of the text of the "Border patrol" page has been changed.
New pictures have been added to the "Berlin corridors spyplanes photo page" on the same page.

02 September 2009

Twenty years ago, the Berlin wall fell apart, whereas the last elements of the 16th Air Army left Germany 15 years ago. 2009 is therefore a good year to put this site online, although the period was not deliberately chosen!
The MiG-27 photo page and the page about units relocations in Russia will be online in a few weeks. Work will then continue on Mi-8 and Mi-24 pages, which will be completed in several months. Other missing pages will follow after.
In the meantime, numerous small updates (text and images) will be progressively included in the already existing pages.

Plan du site - Sitemap

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