(Photo) Su-24 Flanker or MiG-23/MiG-27?

TJ wrote in news:0f878b65-e29f-4579-8e2c-fcc199819d73@
34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

On 10 Aug, 17:27, "David E. Powell" wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...08/08/08/GA200...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...ry/2008/08/08/
GA2008080802276.html?sid=ST2008080802320

Looks like the Flanker but I could be wrong, I can't quite tell if
that is a single or double exhaust. Photo #10. I saw reports of Su-24s
in the area before but this is the first photo I've seen from this
fighting that looks like one.

Su-24 Fencer E. It is the dedicated recce variant.

TJ

Thank you both, I've looked several times at that picture and failed to
place it.

The nose on this one looks a bit longer than on the data in my book--is
that a difference in this variant from early ones?

On 10 Aug, 21:53, "Peter A. Stoll"
wrote:
TJ wrote in news:0f878b65-e29f-4579-8e2c-fcc199819d73@
34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

On 10 Aug, 17:27, "David E. Powell" wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...08/08/08/GA200...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...ry/2008/08/08/
GA2008080802276.html?sid=ST2008080802320

Looks like the Flanker but I could be wrong, I can't quite tell if
that is a single or double exhaust. Photo #10. I saw reports of Su-24s
in the area before but this is the first photo I've seen from this
fighting that looks like one.

Su-24 Fencer E. It is the dedicated recce variant.

TJ

Thank you both, I've looked several times at that picture and failed to
place it.

The nose on this one looks a bit longer than on the data in my book--is
that a difference in this variant from early ones?

Apologies. I've just had another look at it by blowing up the image.
It isn't an Su-24MR, but a Su-24M Fencer D. This is the strike
version. I was thinking that the pod under the wing was the pod
carried by the Su-24MR. The 'pod' on the wing pylon is a munition. The
Su-24MR Fencer E has a shortened nose.

TJ