[roaddog727]

And what airframe provided that HUD view? Certainly NOT an SU-27 or SU-30, as I detect a serious lack of Cyrillic characters....

[cranked]

It was an F/A-18 Super Hornet.
The HUD image has been extenisvely discussed on the internet.

Some discussion here on it:
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-5430.html

And a revealing commentary by a poster named ‘Rapier55’ (scroll down midpage) which describes the image in detail:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-115913.html

And here from a poster that cites ‘Rapier55’:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=863372