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Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (Deactivated) Profile picture
@Gerjon_
Jan 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Interesting Tupolev Tu-154M 🇷🇺RA-85019 flight #RSD982. Continued into Africa after ±2 hour in Tunis.

Earlier (Mali) flights using RFF callsigns (RUSSIAN FEDERATION AIR FORCE). Now RSD (SPECIAL DETACHMENT - RUSSIA, FEDERAL STATE BUDGET INSTITUTION) - Russian Gov, a different org. Image
Given this different callsign and owner, I am uncertain whether this flight is at all related to the RFF flights we previously saw around Mali/within Africa.
Russian State Tupolev Tu-154M reg. 🇷🇺RA-85019 #RSD982 apparently crossed the Atlantic Ocean yesterday:

She was spotted at 🇧🇷Belem Airport in Northern Brazil and was later tracked heading NW over the Carribean Sea.

📸: Finospotter
instagram.com/p/CYkPO-TFAzX/ ImageImage
More: Russian Government Tupolev Tu-154M reg. 🇷🇺RA-85019 is back up!

She popped back up heading SE over the Carribean Sea. To me, it looks like she may have been in 🇨🇺Cuba. ImageImage
Hmmm... Unsure if related, but:
Russian Government Tupolev Tu-154M reg. 🇷🇺RA-85019 seems to have made its way back to 🇧🇷Belem Airport in Northern Brazil, after likely visiting 🇨🇺Cuba, and 🇻🇪Venezuela twice. Returning home to Russia via North Africa tomorrow?

📸caio.spotter, 4 hours ago instagram.com/p/CYuMMbClF1w ImageImage
Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M reg. 🇷🇺RA-85019 #RSD982 has returned home after a five-day trip visiting 🇹🇳North Africa (for refueling?), 🇻🇪🇧🇷South America and 🇨🇺Central America, landing in 🇷🇺Moscow today 15 Jan 2022 around 08:30 UTC. Image

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Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (Deactivated) Profile picture
Sep 7, 2023
I am puzzled about this flight track - IRGC-linked "Pouya Air" EP-PUS always tracks poorly on MLAT and suddenly pops up on full ADS-B, departing Crimea(!) with a super good signal, to later disappear around Moscow?

No tracks on other tracking websites make it extra suspicious>

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The track tweeted by @space_osint looked like a legit MLAT track at first - he checked with me before tweeting, so I don't blame him for anything. But it was ADS-B.

No positions on e.g. ADSBexchange or Radarbox.

Also, callsign "EPPUS" is not what we normally see used by EP-PUS. Image
Shortly after the destruction of the An-225, a fake track popped up on Flightradar24.

Although many found this amusing, it showed to me that it pro-🇺🇦 folks are able to produce fake flight tracks on Flightradar24. Was today's EP-PUS flight another one?

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Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (Deactivated) Profile picture
May 31, 2023
On 23 May 2023, 2 former French Air Force @Armee_de_lair Airbus A340-200s (in service until 2020) left their storage in Indonesia.

@BabakTaghvaee1 later confirmed that they flew to Iran, and found 1 at 🇮🇷Chabahar Konarak Airport.

👉🏻26 May imagery indeed shows an A340-200 there. Image
This means that Iran was again able to get its hands on a set of Airbus A340 aircraft, despite international sanctions (especially in Europe).

Something similar happened in late 2022 when 4x A340-300 flew to Iran from Johannesburg.
To make this happen, I believe 🇮🇷Iran must have set something up in 🇲🇱Mali and 🇧🇫Burkina Faso, allowing them to register aircraft there, which allowed them to fly towards Iran.

A340-300: 🇧🇫XT-AKK, 🇧🇫XT-AKB, 🇧🇫XT-AHH, 🇧🇫XT-ALM
A340-200: 🇲🇱TZ-DTA, 🇲🇱TZ-DTC
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Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (Deactivated) Profile picture
Dec 23, 2022
⚠️Super interesting, going on now: 4 ex-Turkish A340s, recently registered in 🇧🇫Burkina Faso as XT-AKK, XT-ALM, XT-AKB and XT-??? currently flying.

The first disappeared over 🇮🇷Iran -- known for avoiding aviation sanctions + A340 operator...

#MAN3808 #MAN3809 #MAN3810 #MAN3811
(screenshot is a handmade composite)

TC-JDM, TC-JDN, TC-JIH, TC-JII were apparently re-registered as 2-AVRA, 2-AVRB, 2-AVRC and 2-AVRD. They recently became the Burkina Faso aircraft mentioned above.

#MAN3808: #09C19E
#MAN3809: #09C195
#MAN3810: #09C19A
#MAN3811: #09C18D
The aircraft were stored in Johannesburg back in Mar-Apr 2019, and have resided there for the past 3.5 years.

I think it's very suspicious that they disappear over Iran. I would not be surprised if these aircraft are now on their way to Iran to become part of an Iranian airline.
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Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (Deactivated) Profile picture
Nov 13, 2022
What I can say about this article is that the "exclusive" "scoop" because of "An investigation by i" contains a lot of data identical to my earlier blog post and tweets, which I have been updating since late May 2022 (almost half a year ago) (thread)
For example, they list EP-SIH, EP-PUS, EP-FAA and EP-ICD, all of which I also found and listed in May.

I published a list of 69 flights on 04 Nov 2022 and added a 70th flight on 10 Nov 2022, the exact same number presented in the article.

This could mean that I got a complete+perfect overview of flights in the past months.

Or maybe the "investigation by i into the operation (...)" went like this:

1. Read Gerjon's blog, copy the numbers
2. Add the 70th flight
3. Look up a few flights for the map
4. Call it good
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Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (Deactivated) Profile picture
Nov 12, 2022
⚠️My earlier doubts about the role of "Mahan Air" Boeing 747-400 in the 🇮🇷Tehran to 🇷🇺Moscow airlift are justified:

These flights are available through Mahan's booking system, suggesting they are indeed passenger flights. Price is around 1,300-1,500 EUR one-way in economy class. ImageImage
The return leg from 🇷🇺Moscow back to 🇮🇷Tehran is even more expensive, with rates around 3,000 EUR (!) for a one-way economy class flight. Business class is around 5,800 EUR.

Even 🇮🇷 Iran is a refuge for Russians now? ImageImageImageImage
Mahan Air's website matches exactly what's shown by Flightradar24:

To 🇷🇺Moscow Vnukovo on Tue and Thu as W5084, to 🇷🇺Moscow Sheremetyevo on Sun, Mon and Wed as W5098, with aircraft type Boeing 747-400.

(Next week Wed and Thu should again be aircraft type Airbus A310) Image
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Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (Deactivated) Profile picture
Nov 8, 2022
Apparently Bosaso Airport in Somaliland is frequently being visited by "military aircrafts" (sic).

These aircraft are most likely "Fly Sky Airlines" from the 🇦🇪UAE. Their 🇺🇦UR-FSA* (508359) flew from the UAE to an unknown destination on 02, 03, 04, 05 and 06 Nov 2022. ImageImageImageImage
*Flightradar24 has recently messed up and is now displaying both 🇺🇦UR-FSA and 🇺🇦UR-FSE as 🇺🇦UR-FSE.

According to ADSBx, the flights were in fact done by a hex 508359, which is 🇺🇦UR-FSA in my lists. They are visually virtually identical.

Confused yet?😁
This article from today says "30 C-17 cargo planes have landed, bringing military vehicles, heavy weapons and military equipment (...), as well as foreign forces. mercenaries went to Bosaso."

👉🏻So far, I have found no evidence for 30 C-17A flights.
hadalsame.com/2022/11/08/day…
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