Back in 2003 I was deployed to Iraq under Operation Iraqi Freedom as a military policeman and I was briefly at a base operated by what I would assume was either the Royal Army or perhaps the RAF, the Shubiah airfield between Basra and Az Zubayr.

I was on an escort mission to take a critically wounded soldier to the airfield near Basra, presumably to be treated by the Royal Army Medical Corp. After getting this soldier to the proper medics, upon leaving that day, we passed a small bunker on the right hand side by the front gate and by it sat an undestroyed T-55 tank, and a mockup of a Soviet jet on a stand, I believe the stand was green in color?

We couldn't stop to take a picture ( one of my biggest regrets to this day ), and I have always wondered if a photograph of this exists or if by some small chance someone saw this and could provide information and especially photographs of it. The mockup was painted gray with some bits of red ( I think I'm recalling it correctly ), and was probably three to five feet long. I didn't get but a four-second look at it from the gunner's turret as we passed so I can't say much more about it. In a perfect world I would have loved to have been able to take it home, as my hobby as a kid and now is military historical figure modeling, and this was, for lack of any other word, a scale model. Very interesting stuff.

I know it's a long shot but I am sure there are others out there who have seen this back years ago or may know it's fate. It wouldn't surprise me if it made it back to an RAF base in the UK or possibly to a museum such as the IWM. Any information would be greatly appreciated.