Back in 2003 when I was deployed to Iraq, I was on an escort mission to take a critically wounded soldier to the airfield near Basra, correctly called Shaibah but sometimes referred to as As Shubayah, Shubayah, and other disambiguations. Long story short, when leaving that day, we passed a small bunker on the right hand side, and by it sat an undestroyed T-55, 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 in hell someone who was there saw this. 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. 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 thrown it into the back of the HMMWV and shipped it via FedEx back home. The perfect war trophy for a modeler! Anyway, if anyone has any British friends who were there( it was a British operated base when I was there in the spring of 2003 ) or has any leads whatsoever, they'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.