"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.
United States Air Force Boeing RC-135U Combat Sent reg. 🇺🇲64-14849 #HOMER19 is still operating over the Mediterranean, near Western 🇱🇾Libya (Misrata, Tripoli).
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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
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.
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.
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.
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
📹:
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)
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.
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.
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.
🇺🇸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.
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.