Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: mjt@mcnc.org (Michael Tighe) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Soviet Aircraft names/Kremlin class CVN Message-ID: <11119@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 4 Nov 89 04:12:04 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Michael Tighe From: cperlebe@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (Chris Perleberg) > OK, the US has the F-16 Falcon, the F-15 Eagle, the A-10 Warthog, er, > Thunderbolt II. The Soviets have the Fishbed, Flogger, and so on. But > these are NATO code names. Does the MiG-21 Fishbed have a Russian > name? What do Soviet pilots call their Su-25 Frogfoots? Anybody > know? There was a time when they referred to their planes as products, and gave them a number. For example, the MiG-25 was/is known officially as Product 84 (Viktor Belenko, "Mig Pilot"). In the age of Glasnost I am not sure if they still use this scheme though. This is not uncommon, since we referred to the first U-2 as Article 341. ------------- Michael Tighe Internet: mjt@ncsc.org