@ameliairheart used a high contrast alteration on a screenshot of one of the Su-35Ss, which reveals bort number 71 RED.
Part Three.
Screenshot of @scramble_nl shows there was no known airframe registration here, but one airframe had been a 71 RED with 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment (159 IAP) spotted in 2018.
I started doing flight tracking - like many who have followed since - as a hobby.
I thought it was amazing the 1st time I was able to see the flights my family was on in real-time, or the 1st time I was able to see a military jet in real life from data I got from an app.
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It's now more than a hobby, but a passion.
It became clear that patterns would emerge from planes that interested me: I make regular posts, for instance, about E-6B TACAMO callsigns that are uniquely generated. Patterns become tomorrow's headlines. Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine.
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The tech is nothing new: what is new it's only been recently that an army of enthusiasts and professionals have collectively made a living network of plane tracking in such an accessible way.
The only thing newer is the paranoia regarding it.
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Successor-apparent 🇧🇾 1st Deputy FM Sergei Aleinik has been meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of the UAE to Belarus in 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi.
His plane - CRJ-200 EW-301PJ #510055 - arrived in the UAE capital 83 hours ago and apparently hasn't left yet.
In the Belarussian Foreign Ministry, most of the deputies in line to succeed Makei are new to their positions:
- 1st Deputy FM Sergei Aleinik: since Feb 14 2022
- Deputy FM Evgeny Shestakov: March 2016
- Deputy FM Yuri Ambrazevich: March 2022
- Deputy FM Igor Nazaruk: March 2022
Lately, I've been feeling the pull to be a little more transparent in how I make these kinds of open-source observations, and what you as a reader can take with you and use in the future.
I was researching Volga-Dnepr, whose planes are (were) a common sight at some of the world's busiest airports. They are often photographed by AvGeeks regularly & their pics uploaded to databases like Jetphotos.
Recent pics can weed out airworthy airframes from derelict ones. 2/
In this instance, I noted registration numbers seen in a reasonable enough timeframe (2019-2022). I omitted the now broken-up An-124 RA-82042. This produced a list of likely airworthy airframes: 10x An-124s & 5x Il-76s, which I then add to a 'multiple' @ADSBexchange search. 3/