Your favorite Soviet Cold war aircraft?

just looking  for people's  opinions
I've always  found  soviet aircraft better looking than their boxy NATO equivalents(for  example  Su-27 and MiG-27 are  cooler looking than F-15  and tornado). Do you?

So  basically here are my  top 5 favorite  soviet cold war  planes:
1.Yak-28
2.Su-15
3.MiG-23
4.Su-7
5.Tu-22M

MIG 31 - Foxhound of course .

The Foxhound was designed to solve a unique Russian problem – covering its vast air space with limited aircraft.

And the Foxhound achieved this with it's unique ability for sustaining supersonic cruise up to 722 km, increasing to 2200 km with inflight refuelling , a capability with no equivalent in the West .

Sujoy wrote:MIG 31 - Foxhound of course .

The Foxhound was designed to solve a unique Russian problem – covering its vast air space with limited aircraft.

And the Foxhound achieved this with it's unique ability for sustaining supersonic cruise up to 722 km, increasing to 2200 km with inflight refuelling , a capability with no equivalent in the West .

Agree

Unsurpassed even by now. MIG-31 could supercruise at Mach 2.35 for 47 minutes. Thats insanely long even by todays standards.

Mig 31 is fantastic. As was the Fulcrum for its era IMO.
An-225 is incredible (-shame there is the West Ukrainian problem..even today).

But pride of place MUST go to one other bird. I don't even think its a fair competition.
The Tu-160 White Swan. That is sex with wings...
The speed, the size, the power, the beauty of it.

If only something like that could become the nextgen Super-Airliner..
OR something to shut up America as the answser to their Air Force One..

I'd be pretty disappointed if something like that didnt become a Pak-fa..

IMO the MiG-8 loks kind of ugly. But I agree with the other aircraft.

My favorite of Soviet era aircrafts are definitaley
1# MiG-31 it's just awesome from every point of view, it is sexy it is the fastest combat plane ever build, it has the highest altitude and even Anti-Satellite weapons were designed and launched from it.

2# Su-27 and MiG-29, you can say everything but this are the most smoothest and sexiest planes of the entire 4th generation fighters. I personally love the MiG-29 two seat version it looks like a great white shark with the air intakes like fish gills and the Su-27 outperformce every fighter from its time and even today Su-27 families just asskickers.

3# Su-25 which is except of US A-10 an uncommon role for todays times but highly capable and most missions were just unancomplishable without massive losses or to many Overkills through other weapon systems.
It is literally a flying tank.

4# MiG-23/27 i like this design from the swept swings to the weaponary of Gsch 630.

2# Su-27 and MiG-29, you can say everything but this are the most smoothest and sexiest planes of the entire 4th generation fighters. I personally love the MiG-29 two seat version it looks like a great white shark with the air intakes like fish gills and the Su-27 outperformce every fighter from its time and even today Su-27 families just kick ass.

I think you meant with "aircrafts" only planes but by the definition of the word it implies Helicopters too.

And i want to quote General Hammond of Stargate episode with the Marionettes



Gen. Hammond: So doctor let it spin.

Doctor: It can not spin.

Gen. Hammond: But it's round, it has to spin. Spinning is so much cooler than not spin. I am the General, i want it to spin, now!

This silly introductions come to my favorite Mi-24 Crocodile an unique design and served so many wonderful years and will serve at least to 2020.

And of course like my name states out i also just fell in love with the Ka-50 Black Shark or the much cooler name Werewolf it had in the past.

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- The Legends -
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- Mig 21 The best of the best.The palm of all supersonics aircrafts. More than 12.000 -included chinese F7- produced. The legend!
- Mig 15, downed few thousands US aircrafts, it desserves for me a special price.
- Mig 17, US pilots in Vietnam knwow something about the Fresco. It downed several dozens of Phantoms, and F-105, F8, moreover, it is worth to recall that this aircradt is subsonic.
- Mig 19
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The Others, obviously, that does not mean, they are more bad.

- Mig 29
- Su 15
- Su 27/35
- Mig 25/31.
- Su 7
- Su 17/22

This is a hard question, because without fighters, IL 76 could esily be an excellent aircraft, beside An 124, An 12, An 80.

ΜIG-25

1. MiG-29 Fulcrum

2. MiG-31

3. YAK-141 So what it was cancelled it flew.

4. MiG-21

5. YAK-3 "Beware the Yak fighter without an oil cooler under its nose."


Honorable mention: MiG-23 Iraq shot this one down. YAK-38 even the best mess up really bad on occasion.

I like MiG-23. Dunno why.

Mig-31 ofc. with cruising speed comparable to short range missile's speed- its like that xzibit meme brought to life.

The Antonov An-71 AEW aircraft. Shame it never got beyond a few prototypes.

The MiG-31

The Su-27

The Kamov Ka-25

The Beriev Be-12

For me it would be the MiG-23 and the Il-76. Both two aircraft looking like they run on Vodka, which is always a good thing. When I was a child the MiG-23 nearly made me scared, it looks so menacing.

The only Western aircraft (post WW2) I like just as much are the Tornado and the Blackburn Buccaneer.

Yak-15
Yak-23
Yak-36
Yak-38
Yak-41

Yak fanboy.

Two Soviet aircraft I regret never became operational were the Yak-141 and the MiG 1.44. The last one was exposed last year in MAKS and still looks great, hope it will be kept in a museum.

Mig-23 ML/MLD a very underrated aircraft largely because of propoganda ( which was based on performance of Mig-23MS and Mig-23MF)

at the height of the cold war in 1985 there were 1100 in the VVS/PVO alone not counting the WP airforces

Had BVR weapons when the Mirage III/V/Kfir /F-16/F-5E didnt
Had good range
Can have a secondary nuclear attack role
Was relatively cheap
aerodynamic performance closer to F-4E