ED’s already stating they’ll be maintained.
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Mission crafting again. It’s a spin on the previous one where Western intervention happened. One inspiration was the Swedish involvement in the Congo where they brought older J-29s.
It’s 1985. Effective intelligence work by Western agencies to disseminate more honest figures about Soviet losses in Afghanistan indicate to the populace that non-ethnic Russians are suffering inordinately high casualty rates in the conflict. Combine this with old festering grudges, citizens of the Georgian SSR are in open revolt.
The USSR has attempted to douse these flames of unrest only fail and risk the same in the Armenian, Azerbaijani, and the ever important Ukrainian SSRs. The Warsaw Pact watches on with alarm as their most influential member suffers at home and abroad.
While they’ve grown sick of Moscow, the member states of the Warsaw Pact still cast gazes of mistrust toward the ever formidable NATO, mostly based on ideological factors. When Western and Asian powers call for a UN Peacekeeping mission in the region and the security council finds itself deadlocked, the interim solution becomes a Warsaw Pact peacekeeping mission.
The Georgian rebels refuse to recognize Moscow’s authority and Moscow refuses to offer any degree of autonomy. The Warsaw Pact cannot simply allow a new neutral (or worst, capitalist) aligned nation to be founded on the Black Sea. Elections and peacekeeping become the answer for this crisis.
As a result, the nations of Albania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania deploy forces to the region to provide a buffer between the parties. But, in a region as complex as Eastern Europe, it’s chance for new opportunities and the festering of old grudges.
However, Moscow refuses to recognize or even respect the Georgian upstarts while many a Czechoslovak service member looks upon Moscow with resentment for Operation Danube and many Polish members may seek to their own atonement for their nation’s involvement in Danube, as well.
Most have brought older equipment, with the Czechs even relying on old MiG-19s and L-39s they intend to hand over to a newly independent Georgian SSR.
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not so much … reality looks worse 
Gentle on those brakes bud.
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Beautiful shot sir, very nice!
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