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[HotelAlpha]

When were the LanceR airframes built? (The original MiG before the LanceR program took hold of them)  ???

[Kilo]

Don't really know, but I think they were sent from the USSR.

[HotelAlpha]

Maybe in the late 60's.

[Kilo]

Yeah... In February 1962. I've missread what you wrote as "where" 

[Bizu]

Romania recieved it's first order of mig-21 in 1962 from the USSR.

Romania recieved various comands of different types of Mig-21 from USSR starting from 1962 and still after 1980's.

These are all the Mig's-21 Romania ever had:

MiG-21 C
MiG-21 F-13
MiG-21 LanceR A
MiG-21 LanceR B
MiG-21 LanceR C
MiG-21 M
MiG-21 MF/MF-75
MiG-21 RFM
MiG-21 RFMM
MiG-21 U-400/600
MiG-21 UM
MiG-21 US

The Mig-23 and Mig-29 were both retired in the 2000's because Russia refused to offer spare parts for them and then Romania as a last resort conservated them and modernised the Mig-21 with Israeli tehnics.

Mig-21 LanceR A is modernised MiG-21 M and MF/MF-75.

Mig-21 LanceR B is modernised MiG-21 UM.

Mig-21 LanceR C is modernised MiG-21 MF/MF-75.

[Kilo]

RFM being the PF
RFMM being the PFM (Romanian designations)

[HotelAlpha]

Yes, I remember seeing pictures of the MiG 29 "SNIPER":
 

I think it was modernized by Israel as well; but it fellvictim to the spare parts being unavailable.

And then these videos showed all the jets that are retired, in various locations across Romania.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSn40yCc7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVn_kN1BoxA

[Kilo]

Yeah, the Sniper. One modernized, at the museum, took a photo of it...

[HotelAlpha]

It looks pretty bad at the Museum:
  But I think they could at least put it in a hangar or a cover?

[Kilo]

BTW: here are some Facebook pages about the RoAF (two of them being squadrons):

https://www.facebook.com/Povesti.de.aerodrom
https://www.facebook.com/RegimentulDeAviatieDeVanatoare93Giarmata
https://www.facebook.com/Regimentul67AviatieVanatoareSiBombardamentCraiova

[Bizu]

It would be better if our gouverment would consider another offer or at least to order the fabrics to produce a plane like the I.A.R.-93 which still flyes in Serbia as the J-22 Orao. Saab gripen or eurofighter would be great offers, those f-16 are more expensive to maintain and they are old too..

Personally I would love to see the Mig-29 flying again but that is impossible now..

The Sniper is exposed at the aviation museum which I hadn't had the chance to visit it yet and many mig's-21 which are not modernised as LanceR's and I.A.R.-93's are kept on airfields and they silently wait to be melted. The mig-23's and mig-29's are "conservated" on airfields under the sky in no hangar...

 (the sniper is getting rustier and it's paint goes down more and more every year)

[HotelAlpha]

Very sad to see that happen.... BTW Kilo, I can understand Romanian, it is similar to Spanish so I can understand it! Actually for some fun I m going to say something in Spanish, and let's see if you can understand it:

  Hola, Kilo. Tu eres un amigo bueno y sabes mucho sobre la fuerza aéreas de Rumanía.  También te gusta jugar juegos de simulación. Tu amigo Constantin también es como tu, es un encanto conocer a personas como vosotros.
 


Can you understand that?

Reply in Romanian and test me.