Exactly. The 27K is an outlier, not the standard.
So like I said, the others are all the same level as the 25 (and all were very popular) while the 27K and 25T are barely a blip when it comes to operational impact.
As for what the 25T offered that the 25 did not:
ECM
IR jamming
Vikhr
Mercury
Kh58/SEAD (all 3 of those made it far more effective attacking outside the range of enemy ADA)
Now I don’t know if the 27K had some or all of those, but I know the earlier 27s and 17s did not.
To be fair, the MiG-27K also was a major variant. Of the four MiG-27 regiments assigned to the Soviet 16th Air Army in East Germany, all were equipped with a mix of D, M and K variants. The 559th APIB for example flew two squadron Ds and one squadron Ks in the second half of the 1980s.
All MiG-27 variants were equipped with internal jammers and were SEAD capable. The Su-17M variants were also SEAD capable and carried jammers in pods.
For the nerds, here actually is an overview on the MiG-27 variants deployed to East Germany 
https://www.16va.be/mig-27_reequipment.htm
Sitemap is an awesome website by the way. A great place to waist many hours browsing obscure data and fantastic picture galleries of the Soviet VVS in East Germany.
As Long as it has Afterburners and Swing Wings…
Cough F-111… Cough Cough…
Someone say F-111? 
Shoo shoo, go away, we are discussing REAL aircraft now!
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I see what you did there…
Only 200 Ks were built and they were never exported. The term “major” is debatable compared to other Flogger variants.
Only 3 countries ever had 27s counted across all variants, and Sri Lanka was hardly notable.
That leaves India and the USSR, and only India and Kazakhstan still use them, and none of them are Ks. Meanwhile, numerous older and supposedly less-capable planes soldier on, including 27M/MLs. So how much impact did the 27K really make?
Like the B-58. It came after the B-52 entered service, it was far more advanced…yet the total numbers produced were small and its service life short, while the B-52 is STILL in front line use. Many people today have never even heard of the Hustler.
Alright I’m lost, let’s recap.
Problem: REDFOR has no true strike aircraft equivalent to the AJS-37 and Mirage. Viggen is currently feature incomplete and the Mirage INS bombing is a PITA and has limited precision weapons, but, whatever.
Candidates:
Su-7: Oooooold, no precision strike. BUT PROBABLY LOTS OF FUN.
Su-17: M4 version had EO precision strike capability and earlier variants could self-laze. Widespread use and long service-life in and outside of USSR
Su-24: Complicated, two seat variant, still active (documentation issue)
Su-25 (inc. T): In-game, not full systems depth, slow, more suited for CAS/COIN.
MiG-23BN/MiG-27 family: “replacement” to the Su-17, no wide use outside USSR.
So it seems like the two most compelling selections would be a late-model Su-17 or MiG-27… right?
So, say, the Su-22?
-22 is just an export model of the 17. That said there are a bunch of them kicking around the Czech Republic and Poland.
I learned that from the cinematic masterpiece that is the pinnacle of Vin Diesel’s acting career, “XXX.”
Can we get a Czech Republic map, so we can almost destroy Ahab before we step into the Xander Zone and make the world safe from Russian anarchists with terrible accents and questionable fashion sense?
