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Aug 17, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Tu-22M3 that crashed in Irkutsk obl. on 15.08.2024 is RF-94238, 78 red.
Previous photos of RF-94238 were from 2014, airfield Belaya, when it was 22 red and in storage. And then it was active as 31 red in 2020? Dunno what's going on.
Maybe not in storage in 2014. I got confused about the photo description.
Mar 18, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Someone noticed a shot down plane near Svatove (49.35887, 38.03480) on satellite imagery. Most likely this is a russian Su-34, s/d around 02-06 oct 2022. This is not a previously known loss, so should be added to lists.
Attached image is Maxar WV03 from 2023-09-06
Very clearly seen on Sentinel 2 imagery on 8th of October 2022 and very clearly NOT seen on 18th of September. The days in between are too cloudy.
I also have images I'm not allowed to publish from 24 Sep where it's clearly not there and 7th Oct where it's clearly there.
Feb 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"вчорашній" пілот Су-35
Грабовецкий Федор Игоревич
д.н. 29.10.1995
18 шап (в/ч 78018)
особистий номер Э-198404
освіта: квваул (орієнтовно по віку випуск 2017-2018)
з Краснодару
А може й не з Краснодару – це інформація паспорту отриманого в 2016 в Краснодарі під час навчання в квваул просто.
Jan 12, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I don't know how much this is worth posting, but whatever.
A recent video from ru ministry of offense shows a su-25 marked su-25sm3-117. The numbers are blurred, but it's 19 red.
it's temporarily not shot down yet and seems to be a freshly upgraded airframe
first of all, 117 in the signage there is a unique sequencial number. when they started updating su-25 to su-25sm in like 2007, they were marking them like su-25sm-01, su-25sm-02, etc. The latest known was su-25sm-84. Then sm3 mod came along and it was like su25-sm3-01, -02 etc.
Nov 1, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Another one of the russian Ka-52 helicopters with blades taken off in the Luhansk airport video can be identified as "58 blue" from 16 braa (zernograd)
It's tough to ID an airframe that is far away and only some pixels are visible. However, the russians "decided" to help and had a huge red & white paint job on the nose cone of one helicopter that is clearly visible in the video – as well seen previously.
Jun 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
If you browse google maps (which few months ago updated with about march 2022 images), you can see this at coordinates 50.03616, 36.52119
(2GPC+FF8 Elitne, Kharkiv Oblast)
And a valid question would be "what's that? an aircraft wreck?"
Well, it kinda looks like one, but also not? Either way, it's not that far from Elitne village, where the russian Mi-28N helicopter with r/n RF-13628 (65 red, 332 ovp, p/n=11-02, full s/n=34012843422) was shot down, but reported only in May 2022 after the area was much safer
May 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
As posted previously, this captured airframe had number 18 based on documents captured inside & a memory card. Now, with full certainty I'm sure it is 18 blue from 18 braa, even though the pilots were from 319ovp (which has yellow b/n's)
Firstly, no 18 yellow was ever recorded for Chernigovka and I was only considering it as some freshly produced airframe that was never photographed in any way. It's a shaky idea upon itself.
Secondly, I finally got that image of 18 blue from khabarovsk and studied the camo.
Mar 31, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Great people from instagram.com/fuselage_creat…
have posted more photos of this su-35s wreck (in stories, now archived), featuring the construction number! My investigation of it in a thread.
tl;dr: issued in 2020 most likely to 23 iap (Dzemgi).
reminder: ru su-35s downed 19.07.2022
Barely visible on some photos, but the construction number is 07614. It might be written as 07-14 somewhere too as in 7th series, 14th in the series.
The number in the middle is subseries, generally increments from 0 in each series, it groups a few (like 3-4) jets of the series
Mar 25, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Su-25SM "15 blue" RF-95152 is a wreck known to the osint community from the tiktok videos that were posted in January 2023. Circumstantial evidence that this Kherson region. Expected date of shot down September-October 2022.
Recently a photo of a souvenir from this wreck was posted here t.me/vanek_nikolaev…
specifying the date as 29.09.2022 and the location as 46°50'11.2"N 32°27'34.2"E (46.83644, 32.45950)
Feb 12, 2023 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
Join me in a descent into madness as I try to make progress in identifying yet another wreckage of a russian Ka-52.
This time, "the one with the cross and the 'gator graffiti"
First of all, its location was already known, described as near the Sukhanove village in Beryslav region of Kherson oblast. But the date is not known. It was discovered after the "right bank" of the Kherson oblast was liberated, so that would likely give september-november 2022.