Pictures about
the Soviet 143rd Front Bomber Regiment's life
 in the seventies.

In the seventies Imperial Iran Air Force and Turkey Air Force had deployed the F-4E Phantom II model. For the high-altitude flying Yak-28 Brewer bombers the Phantom was a dangerous opponent. Therefore in 1977 they started retraining the 143rd regiment for Su-24 Fencer-B type.

The regiment's second squadron flew with Yak-28PP Brewer-E electronic countermeasures aircraft which would jam enemy Air Defence radars and communications, operating in support of a bomber strike group. These ECM machines would accompanied the other two squadron's Yak-28I bombers to deployment in the seventies. With this the bombers would have significantly increased their survival chances.

Pictures about the 143rd regiment's Yak-28 types while practicing medium altitude nuclear bombing at Kopitnari and Mikha-Tskhakaya airports.

The regiment's silver coloured Jak-28I bombers flew until 1979, after that they were replaced by the modern, low attack Su-24 type.

Tags:
Soviet Union, USSR, Soviet Air Forces, VVS, Cold War, Transcaucasian Military District's Air Force, 34th Tactical Air Army, 143rd Front Bomber Air regiment, Kopitnari and Mikha-Tskhakaya airports, Yak-28I Brewer-D, Yak-28PP Brewer-E, electronic countermeasures aircraft, ECM, Iran and Turkey F-4E Phantom II, Yakovlev

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