Looks like Floggers to me. I don’t think Russia would risk losing their CURRENT fighter models over Syria, just as we most likely wouldn’t use F-22’s, but rather F-18’s.
Also, that might be an escort mission not a refueling event. Protecting precious cargo those fighters were.
>>Looks like Floggers to me. I don’t think Russia would risk losing their CURRENT fighter models over Syria, just as we most likely wouldn’t use F-22’s, but rather F-18’s.<<
The MIG F-29 Fulcrum is pretty much the same as the F/A 18 Hornet.
The Fulcrum is Variable Geometry which makes it similar to the F-14 Tomcat — we retired that (beautiful) bird due to both politics and the maintenance overhead that VG creates. I suspect Russia did the same for the Mig 27 Fulcrum.
But I am guessing here based on the video and recent history.
OOps — I meant the Mig 27 Flogger, not Fulcrum (Mig 29).
F22’s have been involved over Syria for some time now...