MiG or Orion
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Blimey this is hard work. The DE headlines say Mig-31 and the photo caption says Norwegian Air Force Orion. What the OP is getting at is it’s neither a Mig-31 or an Orion!
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With such a sloppy teaser i didn't bother with the story, but i expect it involved one aircraft intercepting another.
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The caption at Post #1 ends with the copyright attribution "(C) Getty", suggesting that it is, indeed, the entirety of the caption (sic, prior to the subsequent revision by DE).
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Is Exhibit "A"... a single upside down photo of a Russian fighter", or "a photo of a single upside down Russian fighter".
(Or, indeed, " an anti-clockwise rotated photo of a single Russian fighter in an 87 degree left bank").
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Is Exhibit "A"... a single upside down photo of a Russian fighter", or "a photo of a single upside down Russian fighter".
(Or, indeed, " an anti-clockwise rotated photo of a single Russian fighter in an 87 degree left bank").
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I can remeber from recce sessions, how someone always pointed out, smart-aleck like, a differentiation detail,, only discernible from close up, when in reality, we were observing the target from 1/4 mile stand-off and 400' height. Eg, the Mk 1 upper thrunge gusket has two rivets here, while the Mk 2 lower plunge gasket has 4. - the only way to tell the difference from a Soviet Kashin destroyer Mk1 and a Mark 1.002.
I can remeber from recce sessions, how someone always pointed out, smart-aleck like, a differentiation detail,, only discernible from close up, when in reality, we were observing the target from 1/4 mile stand-off and 400' height. Eg, the Mk 1 upper thrunge gusket has two rivets here, while the Mk 2 lower plunge gasket has 4. - the only way to tell the difference from a Soviet Kashin destroyer Mk1 and a Mark 1.002.
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Well, it’s certainly scrambled.