Mikoyan MiG-27

The MiG-27, NATO name Flogger-D and Flogger-J, is a variable-sweep ground-attack aircraft first built by the Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau in the Soviet Union and later licence-built in India by Hindustan Aeronautics as the Bahadur. It shares the basic airframe of the MiG-23 fighter but has a revised nose, nicknamed Platypus or Krokodil Gena in Russian service, and is optimised for air-to-ground attack. Unlike the MiG-23 it saw little use outside the Soviet Union, since most export customers took the MiG-23BN or Sukhoi Su-22. A total of 200 MiG-27Ms were built from 1978 to 1983, plus 160 for India, and by late 2023 every operator had retired the type.