Here is a quote from my fellow countryman BritGliderPilot a former stalwart of these Forums from several years ago.
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The R27EA never entered service with the Russian airforce - it was basically an R27ER with a different seeker.
Would have been made in the Ukraine after the breakup of the Soviet Union . . . in the end Russia decided not to buy any. Think only a few prototypes were ever built.
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