A number of Su-22 aircraft were inherited from East Germany, although these did not serve in the Luftwaffe, but some of them were painted with a Luftwaffe color scheme for test and evaluation.
Nemecko Luftwaffe zdedila istý počet lietadiel Su-22 z NDR, ktoré síce v Luftwaffe neslúžili, ale niektoré z nich boli natreté do farieb Luftwaffe s cieľom testovať a hodnotiť.