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Amazing story of pairing a Soviet Mikoyan MiG-27 light fighter-bomber with an enormously powerful GSh-6-30 aircraft gun. A gun, one might say, even more powerful than the GAU-8 installed on the A-10 Thunderbolt.

Chapters:
00:00 - Ugly version of the MiG-23
03:03 - Dnieper
06:00 - Flying Balcony
11:17 - Gryazev & Shipunov
14:24 - ТР-Р-Р-Р-ЫК*
16:30 - Cracking Sound
21:56 - Big Guns in the Soviet Air Force

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