LotA

Aviation and history geek. Sometimes good at solving scattered and smoking aviation... eh, puzzles.

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Oh, yeah, a gentle reminder - I'm an Israeli and an active infantry reservist. If the above two facts of my biography upset or trigger you, I encourage you to fuck off and unfollow/mute/block me, you are more than welcome to do so.
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@Aaronusmagnus Yeap. Meant to compliment my post with clarification, but got a little busy 😅

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After a peak of ~25 Ex-Egyptian Su-35S at KnAAZ a few years ago, only 15 remain as of August of 2025.

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-1 MiG-29K/KUB/M2

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Russian MiG-29 and radar station targeted by Prymary unit in Crimea.

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@Rebel44CZ @MarcinRogowsk14 Well, something definitely burned left of the Bear, the scorched mark wasn't there a week before. Then there's the completely burned down A-60 and we can agree it's been most probably retired. Could have either been fuel or some other very flammable substances/materials.

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@MarcinRogowsk14 Likely the testbed was also retired. Sat images show it rarely being towed across the apron between long rests of up to at least a year. It's final resting place, so to speak, hasn't changed since at least September 2024. And there are no photos of it flying since 2019.

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I.e., it wasn't Mi-28 of any sort.

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I hate to disappoint some of you, but it was Mi-8.

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Yeap, this one, mind you, a UK doctor, too wishes more "genocides" of the phallustynians, unless this is some very odd way of calling for the release of the Israeli hostages thus stopping the war. But hey, I'm just a zionist, what do I know about the cause and effect relation...

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Wanna know the difference? On this date we are mourning, we are remembering our dead and pray for our hostages - live and slain alike, while muslims and particularity the "genocided" phallustynians and their leg humping leftist buddies are celebrating, wishing more of it.

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@SirexTwo @HamasAtrocities 300000? I thought it was like 300000000000!

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@QalaatAlMudiq Oh, the butthurt under this post is so refreshing 🤣

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@StefanB2023 For lack of a better explanation, an equally possible option 🤷‍♂️

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Taking a look at Sokol plant in Kazan. Number of Tu-22M3 (of all airworthiness conditions) on the apron just before the war and Jul-2024 tripled - from 6 to 18.
Bonus: 2 Altius-U/RU MALE UCAV's chilling on the taxiway.

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Ukrainka AB, home of 2 TBAPs, some 6000km from Ukraine, Aug-2024. Most of the aircraft are covered with tires. Yes, even the painted Tu-95MS decoy.

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Maybe some sort of exotic optical/image processing phenomenon?

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Oh, yeah, and a kind of wtf moment. Majority of Backfires on the Sep-2024 images appear to be bearing a sand camouflage... yeah...
On one of the images you can clearly see the difference between a regular weathered camo and whatever this new appearance is.

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@StefanB2023 I'll look it up if spare time allows it.

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Still in Khobarovsky kray, Sep-2024. Khurba-2 AB, home of the 277th BAP, seems completely deserted, even the long dead Su-24 in TECh are no longer there, except for several painted decoys of Su-34's around the base.... and an actual MiG-23 🤨

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@StefanB2023 You mean Baltimor in Voronezh?

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*DzyoMgi, of course.

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Someone must've noticed it by now, but it's new to me - sometime between Jun-2023 and Sep-2024 ruskies painted decoy Su-35's and Su-57's over in Dzyongi air base and started raising additional protection around revetments probably reserved for Su-57.