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Feb 26 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Smoke rises from at least 3 locations at 🇺🇦Gostomel Airport/Antonov Airport near 🇺🇦Kyiv, Ukraine, 🛰️Sentinel-2 imagery from today (26 Feb 2022, 09:06 UTC) shows. I can't recognize An-225 "Mriya" among the suriving aircraft, which makes me concerned.
Cc. @Liveuamap @AntonovCompany Image
Working with the assumption that Mriya was in the hangar around 50.59331, 30,21044 and that this is the same hangar, "Mriya" may be gone. However I think both of these things are still unconfirmed.
Let's hope this is one of those cases:
Although folks are saying this should be Bayraktar TB2 footage, it does not match TB2 footage we have seen before-different crosshair style:

Picture 1: today's image
Picture 2: Kyrgyz Bayraktar TB2
Picture 3: Turkish Bayraktar TB2

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Assuming the "X: 56" is a reference to a WGS 1984 (lon/lat) coordinate related to the location of what's shown on the screen, it would be made nowhere near 🇺🇦Ukraine. ImageImage
🇺🇦UR-82060, Antonov An-225 "Mriya", is gone after all.

There's still an incomplete second An-225 fuselage out there. Thus, one day an An-225 may return to the skies?

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Feb 28
A 🇺🇲United States Air Force RC-135U Combat Sent is up near 🇱🇾Benghazi, Libya.
"The RC-135U Combat Sent provides strategic electronic reconnaissance information (...). Locating and identifying foreign military land, naval and airborne radar signals, the Combat Sent collects and minutely examines each system, providing strategic analysis for warfighters."
Now further west, leaving 🇱🇾Libya airspace: RC-135U Combat Sent reg. 🇺🇲64-14849 #HOMER19. ImageImage
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Jan 15
🇷🇺THREAD: Overview of some of the Russian aircraft used for CSTO troops returning home:

🇦🇲Armenia: 🇷🇺RF-76769, 🇷🇺RF-76745
🇧🇾Belarus: 🇷🇺RA-76669, 🇷🇺RF-78833
🇹🇯Tajikistan: 🇷🇺RF-76615
Generic: 🇷🇺RF-76545, 🇷🇺RA-78762, 🇷🇺RF-76770, 🇷🇺RF-76542, 🇷🇺RF-76530, 🇷🇺RF-76770, 🇷🇺RA-82013 [1/7]
🇦🇲Armenia: 🇷🇺RF-76769, 🇷🇺RF-76745, a 3rd aircraft. [2/7]
🇧🇾Belarus: 🇷🇺RA-76669, 🇷🇺RF-78833, a 3rd aircraft. [3/7]
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Jan 9
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
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Jan 7
Geolocation of this #CSTO video by @mod_russia indeed points at a very foggy 🇰🇿Almaty Airport in #Kazakhstan.

Aircraft shown:
🇷🇺RF-76553
🇷🇺RA-78762
🇷🇺RF-76572
🇷🇺RF-86907

📍: 43.344207°, 77.014621°
🗺️: goo.gl/maps/urQdkyPzQ… Image
This video by Russia Today shows three of the four Ilyushins Il-76 seen in yesterday's Russian MoD video at 🇰🇿Almaty Airport, Kazakhstan:
(🇷🇺RF-76553)
🇷🇺RA-78762
🇷🇺RF-76572
🇷🇺RF-86907
📹: ImageImage
Another aircraft involved in the 🇷🇺Russia to 🇰🇿Kazakhstan airlift is 🇷🇺RF-86897, an Ilyushin Il-76MD.

"Transfer of the main forces of the Russian contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan" (automatic translation)

russian.rt.com/ussr/article/9… 09 Jan 2022 11:07 MSK. Image
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Aug 30, 2021
Part of a long train of KC-135 tankers and C-17A Globemaster III cargo aircraft is #MOOSE88/🇺🇸07-7173, possibly the one that turned off the lights at 🇦🇫Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan: the last one out.

The end of an era. ImageImage
It looks like 🇺🇸62-4139/#PYTHN51, a Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint ISR aircraft, is also part of the 🇺🇸 military aircraft train leaving Afghanistan. I imagine she may have kept an eye on the situation from high over 🇦🇫Kabul as inventory on ground was blown up and aircraft took off. ImageImage
Also part of the train: #GRIMM21/🇺🇸60-0026, a United States Air Force Boeing B-52H Stratofortress bomber, part of the usual daily deployment to 🇦🇫Afghanistan that has been ongoing for months.
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Aug 15, 2021
🇺🇸N225AX, an Omni Air International (very common U.S. Military transport contractor) Boeing 767-200 passenger aircraft is currently near 🇦🇫Kabul, Afghanistan: #OAE8078

I imagine the crew will remember the flight for the rest of their lives. Image
U.S. Contractor "Omni Air International" 🇺🇸N225AX #OAE8078 has landed in 🇦🇫Kabul, Afghanistan.

Also, a U.S. registered Mil Mi-171E (reg. 🇺🇸N510VS) popped up right next to the U.S. Embassy and seems to be going back and forth between airport and embassy.
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U.S. registered Mil Mi-171E (reg. 🇺🇸N510VS) from the airport landing in 🇦🇫Kabul's Green Zone just now. ImageImage
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