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MiG-27 Flogger armed with eighteen bombs
in Soviet-Chinese border.

The 73rd Tactical Air Army received advanced fighter-bomber aircraft in the late seventies. Similar to other air armies MiG-27s and Su-17s were planned to be used here. But the 73rd Tactical Air Army's leaders wanted to have a single type. Therefore, the Su-17 Fitter-Cs were transferred to the 49th Tactical Air Army's 217th fighter-bomber air regiment. The 73rd Tactical Air Army's both fighter-bomber regiments received the basic MiG-27 Flogger-D type from 1979.

In the pictures below, the 129th regiment's basic version MiG-27 Flogger-Ds can be seen in 1982. They practised the attack of the Chinese People's Army units with bombs and cannon from Taldy Kurgan Airport.
Maintenance of MiG-27 Flogger's GSh-30A six-barrelled 30-mm cannon Maintenance of MiG-27 Flogger's GSh-30A six-barrelled 30-mm cannon

Maintenance of GSh-30A six-barrelled 30-mm cannon

The desert sands caused many problems.
Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982 Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982

The MiG-27 Flogger-D is configured with eighteen free fall OFAB-50 bombs MBD2-67U bomb rack in 1982

They practised the attack of the Chinese People's Army targets with eighteen OFAB-50 bombs and 30-mm cannon.
Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982 Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982
Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982 Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982
Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982 Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982 Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982
Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982
Soviet 129th fighter-bomber air regiment 's crew in Taldy Kurgan Soviet 129th fighter-bomber air regiment 's crews in Taldy Kurgan
Soviet 129th fighter-bomber air regiment 's ground crews in Taldy Kurgan Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's MiG-27 Flogger-D with bomb in Taldy Kurgan in 1982 Taldy Kurgan in 1985
Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's crews in Taldy Kurgan in 1979 Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's crews in Taldy Kurgan
Soviet 129th Fighter bomber air regiment's crews in Taldy Kurgan in 1982 Soviet 129th Fighter bomber ait regiment's 3rd squadron's MiG-27 Flogger-D weapons in Taldy Kurgan in 1982

For the regimental staff's families a residential district was built at Taldy Kurgan. The staff were replaced every 4-6 per years, they went back to European airports.
Taldy Kurgan flats Soviet 129th fighter-bomber air regiment 's ground crews in home
Taldy Kurgan

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Soviet Union, USSR, Soviet Air Forces, VVS, Cold War, SSoviet Central Asian Military District, 73rd Tactical Air Army 1973, 24th Mixed Air Division, Taldy Kurgan, 24th Mixed Aviation Division, 129th Fighter Bomber Air Regiment, Taldy Kurgan, 129th Fighter Bomber Aviation Regiment, MiG-27 Flogger-D, Mikoyan and Gurevich

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