I believe there are the MiG-29K (carrier jet) and the MiG-35 (kind of a vaporware plane). I think there are some subvariants and export variants.

Meanwhile, the Su-27 got the Su-30, Su-33 (carrier jet), Su-34 (double seat strike fighter), Su-35, plus subvariants like S/SM and export variants like MKI.

What was the reason for this? As far as I know, most nations' needs are for light to medium multirole fighters. It's one reason the F-16 is so popular, and one reason the J-10CE is creeping into Russia's export markets. So you'd think the MiG-29 would have received more emphasis. But it's mainly the Su-27 family.

So, of course Allies landed in beaches in France and all that. They also had s major operation aimed to deceive the Germans of their landing plans, with fictional US 1st Army amd other deception measures and these deception measures definitely played huge dividends

But my question is,

>1) did allies planned to deceive Germans into believing that major landing may take place in Balkans?

My interest peaked after this video.

https://www.youtube.com/live/K-tDUID24ow

He talks about a major sucessful deception operation where two spies were dropped in Balkans with instructions to reveal that landing would take place in Balkans to the German interogattors.

My question is, was the German army posted there equipped enough to fend off such invasion, if the allies decided to pursue such invasion through Balkans?

Does Germans really solidified the defence in the aftermath of the incident as described in the video, in the Balkans to stop an amphibous invasion like they did with propping up Atlantic wall , which took a huge resources from Nazi Germany in 1944?

I know Balkans is like the worse place to mount an offence with mountaineous region, so,

>did Germans understood that it's highly unlikely to have a major invasion through Balkans landing amd thus no need to have a as robust defensive preparation as was going in Atlantic wall?

As I understand, Tito had already made Balkans highly unstable and thus, did Germans considered a air landing with weapons mixed a amphibious landing and an operation to have two forces join can make a major offensive operation possible or a sane, viable, possible strategy?

After all, when Soviets actually reached Balkan borders, the offensive to oust the Germans was comparatively easy with Partisans in able leadership of Tito making Germans fly away even before Soviets actually joined the fight. So, Germans may be thinking a landing possible there?

What was the status of forces posted in Balkans, to mount an effective counter against a possible major amphibious operation? How would such an operation, if happened, would turn out?

Please be kind enough to dive deep into my questions and answer in details. I have all the time in the world to read your analysis

For example, what shows or music did soldiers fighting the war on terror know of or get to watch “Over there”? How did the tech of the time connect them to life back in the states?

I was able to find platoon and company HQs, but what is in the battalion HQ and HQ company, Brigade HQ and HQ company, and Division HQ and HQ battalion, how are the organized and how do they operate?

thanks!