Few are aware that the German Luftwaffe flew Russian-built fighter jets!?
The story is: At the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1998-90 inherited Luftwaffe twenty MIG-29 from the airforce of the east-German DDR-Volksarme and spent subsequent five years time to convert them all to NATO standards, following a designation to MIG 29 G (as in Germany (beside the Germans have a long history of favouring the G ("Gustav") -designation))
In 1999 did Luftwaffe participate in the joint NATO Red Flag air excercise with the converted MIG's and has probably aroused some interest between the contenders ;-)
At the introduction of the Eurofighter in the Luftwaffe went the MIG's retiring and was sold to the Polish Air Force for one Euro each!
As the picture possibility stinks in this forum, You get a link instead:
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