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Better pictures i was unable to find:

With better pictures it could be difficult. It was strictly forbitten to make photos of real life missiles in the old times. I cant remember that the JG-3 in Peenemünde had made a weapon show after the political change. So photos of this missile would be rare. To the designation of the training missile. I just wrote an former MiG-23 pilot to ask him the question. Perhaps he will answer. Perhaps not. The LSK term is probably "R-23 Schreiberrakete".

Nice pictures. One remark. For training missions only one training missile (of each missile type) was loaded on the planes. The designation of R-23 training missiles were, as far as i remember correctly, R-23UT for IR guided version and R-23UR for SAHM missile. But maybe i'm wrong.

Air to Air photos of R-23U training missile for air-to-air medium range combat.

This is a training missile for ground crews, not for air to air combat training.

MiG-21F-13 LSK used as recon bird in the early 80th. Later replaced by MiG-21M, which should be replaced by Su-22M4.

Since the topic starter comes from Turkey, i guess he wants to fly turkish jets to protect islamistic rebels, Al-Kaida and IS forces against the bad, godless russians and shia troops from Iran, Lebanon and Assads alewitish squadrons. As far as i know there is no map, which covers the area of the turkish syrian border. But this would be no big problem to build such a terrain. The question is, who should do that. AFAIK all terrain builders are working on their own projects. For me it is rebuilding Battle of Britain terrain and a new version of Kuril Islands, so i have no time to start an other project. The solution would be: help yourself, so help you god. ( no matter what god you believe in) A tutorial, how to make a terrain, is available at Knowledgebase of Strike Fighters 1, here in this forum.

In german language we called it "Schreiberrakete". It had seeker heads and a memory device, which "wrote" all data, so that after landing could be evaluated, wheter the missile would have hit the target or not. Those "missiles" were always white and had black stripes around the body. They had never rocket engines or maneuvering fins. This picture show a MiG-23ML with training missiles for R-23 and R-60. BTW: Nice to see the different camo schemes of the planes. Every single fighter plane of the LSK had a unique camo.

In the late 80th the soviet submarine force of the North Fleet made a big scale exercise, broke through the SOSUS line, shaked off the NATO submarines and Sub Hunter ships and disappeared in the mid Atlantic. Two weeks later the most soviet submarines were detected close to the US east coast. The incident you descriped could have happen in this timeframe.

Ab durch die Mitte! Take the midway!

call the ball! touchdown!

Over the Kuril islands.

Your picture shows not a weapon, but a soviet version of the "Sänger Projekt", called "Kosmoljot". The vehicle shows civil markings, the soviet flag and the cyrillic letters "CCCP", transfered to latin letters "SSSR" or translated into english "USSR".

Over Hawkinge Airfield.

The answer i got from the former east german MiG-21 pilot was: "Such thing we definitly had not had. And i have never heared, that the soviets used UPK-23 on MiG-21."

What if Yakovlev would have been allowed to develope his project Yak-35:

Its not a trustworthy source. They also use the RS-2US, AA-1 Alkali for the MiG-21bis. The MiG-21bis radar was unable to operate the Alkali. They have flare dispensers on MiG-21bis. The MiG-21bis had not had such device. Only the SPS jammer pod had flare dispensers included. I will try to contact a former MiG-21 pilot. Perhaps he know more about gunpods on MiG-21 wingstations.

I have never seen such a weapon on a MiG-21. And i doubt, that the wiring of the inner pylons can handle gunpods. Gunpods on inner stations could cause a conflict with the maingears too.

I played with the settings in the data.ini and now i have the better looking water, which we know from SF2. Screenshots: Two FW-187 get "dry feets" while closing to Manston AB.

The flightmodel of TW F-14 is the one, which fits best to the other stock planes in game. So the stock F-14A is for me the best choice.

What if the german Bundesmarine would have had a carrier vessel:

okay, i'm one day to late. Feb 12. 1942 Operation Donnerkeil / Cerberus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Dash Two german battleships, one heavy cruiser and some escort vessels forced the break through the English Channel. Less than 200 german fighters formed an air cover for the naval battle group. During the battle the german Luftwaffe lost 17 planes, 11 pilots died. More than 300 british planes attacked the battle group. 43 british planes were shot down. All british air strikes were not successfull. The battle group reached their point of destination without countable losses. Screenshot. Me-109F during escort mission over to the battle group near Calais.