#russian planes

[a-4skyhawk]

MiG-31 'Foxhound'

#migs #mig31 #russian planes #russian air force #russian aircraft

[idontlikeem]

Kyle confirming the core was mad at him lol. What kind of voicemails did he get after the game do you think.

#my guesses: #Geno- drunk crying mostly in Russian #Kris- mostly silence and angry breathing #Sid- ice cold terrifying ‘hello Kyle. you have made an interesting choice. I’ll see you on the plane to Boston tomorrow’ #pens lb #pittsburgh penguins

[sexynetra]

In case any of y’all wanted to know why Jane is the way she is 🤭

#Sasha something is really sending me howling #my dad is not an immigrant dad but I know in my soul that this is immigrant dad behavior #it makes me smile okay like this is so silly #now you all see why Jane is Jane #this is real Russian Jew behavior okay #drag race #rpdr #RuPaul’s drag race #drag race 16 #rpdr 16 #RuPaul’s drag race 16 #plane Jane #✈️

[homicidalbrunette]

Hey here's three minutes of Plane Jane and Katya vibing/flirting you're welcome

#dont worry I'm still team trixie #but i'm so here for Katya having a young hot cunty bf who is into all the shit he is into #plane jane #katya #katya zamolodchikova #katya zamo #the bald and the beautiful #tbatb #the brians #CJ post #drag race #rupaul's drag race #also jane is my GIRL #out here making drag race for the gays again #we love a mean gay #it was so great to watch someone get excited over Katya's special interests #it was also so cute to watch jane get giggly as the episode went on too #these two speaking russian and katya instinctively grabbing at him and jane knowing all this stuff about him #because is he a katya fan #yes yes he is #you know they fucked after this #or have since then #because mama jane was throwing out some power bottom vibes at him and god almighty them fucking would be so hot #but also Jane's face lighting up when katya asks him to go see loboda with him #and maybe this all made miss trix alil jelly #good incentive if it did #flirting via reading #we love to see it #the flirty little “well now I like you” at the end 🥵

[tomorrowusa]

Ukraine just put two key Russian military aircraft out of commission. It will now be more difficult for Russia to direct operations against Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Air Force shot down a Russian A-50M/U intelligence gathering plane – somewhat similar to US Air Force E-3 Sentry (AWACS) aircraft. And it severely damaged an Il-22M11 command and control aircraft which was able to land but is beyond repair.

It’s official. Russian and Ukrainian sources have confirmed that Ukrainian air-defenses on Sunday hit, over southern Ukraine and the Sea of Azov, two of Russia’s rarest and most valuable support planes: a Beriev A-50 radar early-warning plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post. “Who did this?” the Ukrainian air force quipped. The answer, it seems, is the air arm’s 90-mile-range Patriot PAC-2 air-defense missiles. The jet-propelled A-50—one of nine A-50M/Us in service—fell into the Sea of Azov in flames, likely killing everyone on board: potentially 15 people including high-ranking officers and highly-trained radar specialists. The propeller-driven Il-22, with up to 10 people aboard, managed to land in Anapa on the Russian side of the Sea of Azov’s southern coast. “Urgently requesting ambulance and fire crew,” the crew radioed as they wrestled their shrapnel-holed plane toward the air base. Photos of the damaged Il-22, snapped after it landed, illustrate the extent of the damage—a mangled tail fin and fuselage—and also reveal the plane’s exact variant. It’s an Il-22M11, and it might be a total write-off. This version of the 1950s-vintage Ilyushin turboprop is rare. The Russian air force has maybe 12 Il-22Ms after mutinous Wagner Group mercenaries shot down one of the planes over western Russia back in June. While the Russians could modify an old Ilyushin airframe into a replacement Il-22M, they probably can’t do so quickly—or cheaply. An A-50 or Il-22M might cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Russia had only about ten of the A-50 planes. One was blown up by Belarusian partisans 11 months ago south of Minsk. And now one is sleeping with the fishes in the Sea of Azov.

Here are pictures of the Il-22M11 which was able to make an emergency landing at Anapa in Russia.

Just to rub it in to Putin, here's a graphic from Ukraine's military announcing its hits on the two Russian planes.

ЗНИЩЕНО = destroyed Повітряні Сили = Air Force

The two planes together would cost Russia over half a billion dollars to replace. 😁😎

#invasion of ukraine #ukraine #stand with ukraine #two key russian military planes destroyed #Il-22M11 #A-50M/U #patriot pac-2 missiles #sea of azov #defense of ukraine #russia's war of aggression #vladimir putin #russia is losing the war #агрессивная война россии #anapa #россия проигрывает войну #владимир путин #путин хуйло #путлер #добей путина #путин – это лжедмитрий iv а не пётр великий #руки прочь от украины! #геть з україни #вторгнення оркостану в україну #азовське море #повітряні сили україни #російські літаки-розвідники #україна переможе #будь сміливим як україна #слава україні! #героям слава!

[blueiskewl]

On The Hunt

A Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft pilot looking sharp while hunting Russians.

#ukraine #russia #russian war on ukraine #fighter pilot #fighter jet #fighter plane #fighter aircraft #Su-25 #the front line #war #world at war #weapons #on the hunt

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹📸 A Russian military transport plane, was in the process of flying 65 Ukrainian POWs to a location in the Bolgorod oblast to facilitate a prisoner exchange when it was shot out of the sky by Ukrainian missile, killing everyone on board.]

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UKRAINIAN MISSILE SHOOTS DOWN RUSSIAN MILITARY TRANSPORT PLANE FILLED WITH ITS OWN POWs

74 are dead, including 65 Ukrainian POWs, after a Russian military transport plane being used to facilitate a prisoner exchange scheduled for Wednesday was downed somewhere over the Bolgorod region of the Russian Federation, near the border with Ukraine. The prisoner exchange has since been called off by Russian authorities.

In an article published by Ukrainian Pravda, a Ukrainian news periodical, a source is cited as saying that the aircraft was downed by Ukrainian forces near the border with Russia's Bolgorod region, however they have since retracted the source, and are now claiming they cannot confirm the news. The Russian authorities have since confirmed that the plane was in fact downed by a Ukrainian missile, likely using either an American Patriot air defense missile or a German-made Iris-T.

In a statement released by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian authorities say that the crash took place at approximately 11:15am (local time), when a Russian Il-76 military transport plane filled with Ukrainian POWs was downed near the Bolgorod region.

“At about 11:00 Moscow time, an Il-76 plane crashed during a scheduled flight in the Belgorod region. On board there were 65 captured Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, <including> six crew members and three accompanying persons,” the statement says.

In its statement, the Russian Defense Ministry slammed the missile strike, declaring the "Kiev regime committed a terrorist act" in downing the military transport.

According to Russian sources, the aircraft had been en route from the Chkalovsky military airbase in Moscow, and was shot down by air defenses stationed somewhere in the Kharkov oblast in the northeast of Ukraine, killing everyone on board.

The Russian and Ukrainian authorities had agreed to conduct a prisoner exchange later on Wednesday, with the exchange set to take place near the Russian village of Kolotilovka, also in the Bolgorod oblast, close to the border with Ukraine.

A second military transport aircraft carrying some 80 Ukrainian POWs was turned around before reaching the danger area, and was successfully diverted to another airbase after news of the downing reached Russian authorities.

The Ukrainian officials have so far refused to comment on the crash, remaining mum as news of the event spreads, although Andrey Yusov, a spokesperson for the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) confirmed a prisoner exchange had been scheduled for Wednesday, adding that the exchange has since been cancelled.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

#russian federation #russia #russian news #russia news #ukraine #ukraine news #ukrainian news #ukraine war #war in ukraine #russo ukrainian war #russia ukraine war #russia ukraine conflict #missile strike #downed plane #POWs #war #war news #eastern europe #europe #europe news #european news #politics #news #geopolitics #world news #global news #international news #breaking news #current events #prisoner exchange

[lonestarflight]

"Recent images of the sole An-225 Mriya show the aircraft being dismantled, reportedly for storage and eventual repair.

"The deputy CEO of Antonov, Maksym Sanotskyi, told the German media outlet Deutsche Welle in April 2023 that three of the An-225's six engines were repaired, and two went to the An-124 fleet as spares — something particularly helpful to Ukraine in the ongoing war effort."

At the time, Antonov said there was 'about 30% of components that can be used for the second sample.'

CNN reported Antonov was trying to restore one of the wings, while the Times reported the company was in talks with aviation companies in Europe, the US, and Asia.

'The aircraft will be equipped with modernized engines,' Valerii Kostiuk, an Antonov designer, told CNN in April. 'New electronic on-board equipment will be installed on the plane. Well-known companies will be involved.'

Photo: Igor Lesiv"

Date: August 10, 2023

source, source

#Antonov An-225 Mriya #AN-225 #Cargo Plane #Antonov Airlines #Battle of Antonov Airport #Russian invasion of Ukraine #Russo-Ukrainian War #August #2023 #my post

[camilieroart]

DAY 7: Draw the weirdest object in your house

Russian plane part

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 DAY 6

#improvement hell #improvement hell challenge #camilieroart #object #study #art study #russian plane #plane #flying

[nocternalrandomness]

Polikarpov I-153 at the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow

#Vintage aircraft #WW2 #Biplane #Fighter #Sesquiplane #Russian aircraft #Polikarpov #I-153 #Chaika #Military plane #Airplane #Aviation

[thatsrightice]

I’ve been doing a LOT of digging on what path the Top Gun pilots would have taken prior to the events of the movie, specifically Iceman of course, but I found some information regarding the squadrons that Iceman and Maverick would have been apart of directly prior to TOPGUN.

In a preliminary script for “Top Gun”, Maverick speaks to Iceman saying, “You were in 124 with Bargamian.” In Maverick’s line, 124 refers to the VF-124 Gunfighters, a fleet replacement squadron (FRS). Iceman would have been assigned to the F-14 Tomcat and VF-124 in the selection after flight school, and Bargamian is likely a reference to the last name of a pilot Maverick had likely known well. The squadron was located in NAS Miramar, California, and in 1972 the squadron became responsible for training pilots and RIOs in the F-14A Tomcat in the Pacific. These training fleet replacement squadrons would fly out to aircraft carriers to fly day and night carrier qualifications.

In the movie, however, Iceman wears a patch for VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet. This means that he was likely reassigned to VFA-25 for deployment. What is interesting about this is that the squadron never flew the F-14 Tomcat, rather, they only flew configurations of the F/A-18 Hornet. VFA-25 was based out of NAS Lemoore, CA, and was in Carrier Air Wing CVW-14 at the time of the movie. They deployed on the USS Constellation from February 1985 to August 1985, and from September 1986 to October 1986. Their next deployment wouldn’t depart until April of 1987.

In the movie’s opening scene, Maverick and Cougar use the flight callsign ‘Ghostrider,’ the callsign for a real F-14 squadron (VF-142). In the early 1980s, VF-142 was deployed several times on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as a part of Carrier Air Wing CVW-7 flying F-14s. They deployed from April 1980 to December 1980, from January 1982 to July 1982, from April 1983 to December 1983, from May 1984 to May 1985, and from July 1985 to September 1985. Then they had an extended turnaround while the ship returned to the shipyard for an extensive overhaul and did not deploy again until 1987 with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

However, you may notice that Maverick’s patch is NOT for VF-142. The patch has VF-1 written, referring to the F-14 Tomcat fighter squadron known as the Wolfpack. The Wolfpack deployed on the USS Ranger from January 1982 to February 1982 and from April 1982 to October 1982. Then they deployed on the USS Kitty Hawk from January 1984 to August 1984 before returning to the USS Ranger from May 1986 to July 1986. They deployed again on the USS Ranger from August 1986 to October 1986 and from March 1987 to April 1987.

But this does not match the logo for the squadron, rather, the patch’s logo depicts a bird in flight. Aircraft from the NAS Miramar-based squadron VF-51 Screaming Eagles and VF-111 Sundowners were repainted in fictitious markings for the film. One could presume that the logo is meant to be a nod to the VF-51 Screaming Eagles. The Screaming Eagles flew off the USS Kitty Hawk in 1981 but transferred to the east coast following an accident that killed a deckhand from the squadron and injured an aircraft’s crew when an A-7E Corsair II from VA-22 struck one of VF-51s aircraft. They flew off of the new USS Carl Vinson from March 1983 to October 1983 as the ship traveled to its homeport in California. VF-51 is the first F-14 squadron to intercept several Soviet aircraft including an armed MiG-23. The squadron cruised with the USS Carl Vinson from 1986 to 1987.

Obviously, we know that Top Gun was filmed on the USS Enterprise, so this is another inaccuracy regarding his squadron. The USS Enterprise sailed with CVW-11 many times in the early 1980s. They deployed from September 1982 to April 1983, May 1984 to December 1984, from January 1986 to August 1986, from January 1988 to July 1988, and from September 1989 to March 1990. CVW-11 consisted of VFA-14 Tophatters, VFA-41 Black Aces, VFA-86 Sidewinders, and VFA-97 Warhawks.

Basically, none of it will paint you a clear and accurate picture. Obviously, I didn’t expect it to be accurate in terms of dates or aircraft carriers lining up and overall accuracy, but the patches and bars on their uniforms would have been nice. I’ve been trying to put together a timeline for Iceman’s career prior to TOPGUN but it’s a little hard when they don’t flesh out a character with a complete and fool proof backstory. I mean, Val Kilmer had to come up with his own headcanon in order to play his character with at least a little bit of depth.

EDIT: you can find a lot of information on different Naval squadrons using the website seaforces.org, they’ll give you info regarding their deployments and what carriers they were on and what planes they flew. Also, Wikipedia is legitimately a great starting place in terms of research :)

#TLDR; top gun is not accurate #I like research #I go too far sometimes (a lot of the time) #questioning of military accuracy #I am putting together a timeline of his life for my fic because I’m extra #I want to add details from his past with other characters like what sports did he play at the academy #expect more in depth research on iceman’s career prior to top gun to come #is he or is he not Russian? like is it important to my plot? I haven’t decided #tom kazansky #pete mitchell #top gun: maverick #top gun #iceman #top gun maverick #top gun iceman #Maverick #info dump #research #mine #I like planes #just a little thing I wrote #reference

[a-4skyhawk]

Tupolev Tu-144 'Charger' at Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany

#tu144 #russian planes #germany

[russian-aesthetic]

#russia #russian aesthetic #airforce #army #military #planes #aircraft

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Everyone, a new reason for the "special military operation" dropped - I shit you not ... unisex toilets

#pun totally intended #i mean i totally get that unisex toilets are hard to understand for russians #considering a lot of them dont even have a toilet #he unironically sits their and claims that this is a problem for them #like...planes? busses? trains? festivals? their own homes????????? #if they have a toilet ... they all have two toilets or what??????

[blueiskewl]

Wagner Mercenary Group Boss Yevgeny Prigozhin Dead

A Private jet carrying Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has crashed with 10 people on board.

In addition to Prigozhin, neo-Nazi Wagner leader Dmitry Utkin was allegedly aboard on the plane and is now dead.

“Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defense in the Tver region, north of Moscow,” BBC reported.

#wagner group #Yevgeny Prigozhin #Dmitry Utkin #Wagner Mercenary Group Boss Yevgeny Prigozhin Dead #russia #russian war on ukraine #jet shot down #plane shot down #war #world at war

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

The fact that they're esCOrTInG IT THOUGH FGSJSVNFJFBDGS-

#su 57 #russian air force #lmaooooo #jank-ass “stealth” plane #russo ukrainian war