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Convoy of Russian government jets takes off from Moscow, heading East
Aeorotime Hub ^ | 3/17/2022 | VALIUS VENCKUNAS

Posted on 03/17/2022 7:31:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

A large fleet of VIP transport aircraft belonging to the Russian Special Flight Detachment “Rossiya” took off from Moscow Vnukovo Airport (VKO) in the early hours of March 17, 2022.

The detachment is tasked with transporting Russian government officials. According to Planespotters data, it operates 29 aircraft, most of which are Russian-made Tupolev Tu-214, Ilyushin Il-96 and Sukhoi Superjet 100.

At least 10 of these aircraft have been observed taking off from VKO starting at 8:48 AM MSK (5:48 GMT) and heading Eastwards on various flight paths.

The convoy was first noticed by Twitter user Manu Gomez, and independently confirmed by AeroTime with the use of flight tracking services Flightradar24 and ADS-B Exchange.

At approximately 9:14 AM MSK one of the airplanes, a communications relay aircraft Tu-214SR, registered RA-64516, entered a holding pattern south of Tumen.

It must be noted that a greater number of Russian governmental aircraft may be in the air, as it is currently unknown how many Special Detachment “Rossiya” aircraft are equipped with ADS-B transponders, and how many of them have not kept their transponders on.

UPDATE 03-17-2022, 13:30 (UTC +2): All the aircraft from the convoy have landed in various Russian cities since this article went to print. The first aircraft to take off, Tupolev Tu-214PU (reg. RA-64532), landed at 10:04 AM GMT in Novosibirsk (OVB), before taking off again 22 minutes later and heading back in the direction of Moscow

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KEYWORDS: aviation; bidenswar; neocons4biden; nevertrumpers; planes; putin; russia; ukraine; war
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To: T.B. Yoits

Two planes landing in a row would be a convoy to a lot of dopes. They should sit and watch “the convoys” going into JFK some day. Lol.


61 posted on 03/17/2022 9:16:19 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Putin is a moderate compared to many of the fanatical Russian nationalists waiting in the wings.

Be careful what you wish for....


62 posted on 03/17/2022 9:20:05 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Moscow traditionally had very strong underground areas to make the city survivable in the event of a nuclear attack.

Leaving the city make actually be riskier for leaders than staying there.


63 posted on 03/17/2022 9:21:53 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Belteshazzar

abandoned mines? Cue Dr. Strangelove


64 posted on 03/17/2022 9:22:05 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: pierrem15; All

Forget the light-weight fake “bio lab” stupid stuff in the West.

Proximal to Novosebirsk Russia is the Real Deal—

Wowza

Massive September 2019 - P4 lab explosion in Siberia -

https://iser.med.unsw.edu.au/blog/explosion-vector-hoping-best-while-preparing-worst

(By the way, this site goes deep into the ground)

IF anyone is interested, the US gave away the kitchen sink -

US gave away the bio weapon farm to Russia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201553/

This is part of the real story no one wants to look at.

The program actually began as a Bio Threat Reduction blueprint (as part of the greater NBC Threat Reduction program), while Reagan was still CiC and gamed out at the Pentagon.

By 1985, we were confident the CCCP was going into “Cacoon” (CIS), because of Reagans draconian finance order blocking any and all Banks, Creditors, Corporations, and NGO’s from doing business in the US - if they were doing business with the CCCP.

Gorbachev knew the trainwreck was coming, as CCCP owed near $4.5 Trillion dollars to Western banking institutions, such as the Fed, IMF, IBST, London Club, and Paris Club of bankers, and CCCP wouldn’t be able to reschedule debt, or acquire new debt.

We could see the total wipe out of CCCP internally, so the Pentagon began gaming out/blueprinting plans to try and make sure the brain trust of CCCP wouldn’t go to Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran, etc., after a collapse, or forced transition from CCCP to another entity (we now know of as CIS)

As part of this PLAN, budgeted money was to be used to buffer the paychecks for predominamtly Russian and Ukrainian Bio/Chem/Nuke scientists.

Safeties and accountability were prerequisite and unarguable. Remember “Trust But Verify” -

However, when this all played out, much of this PLAN had been rolled into DTRA, and very unfortunately Clinton was president.

The “Biological Research Lab” moment was dispersed by *yours truly, one Anthony Fauci ! (Actually he was the bio money dispenser guy pegged back to 1987, at least)

Under Clinton, we basically threw out most CCCP/CIS WMD accountability, and Moscow activity blocked BSL-4 sites from US and NATO inspections.

However, we gave them billions of dollars, as well as access to our facilities and technologies.

US gave away the bio weapon farm to Russia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201553/

This money would go global under Cl im nton, and not be used only for CCCP/CIS !


65 posted on 03/17/2022 9:23:59 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: GOPJ
Putin has shelters for 70% of his population...

BBC is now reporting that there might not have been anyone killed in yesterday’s theater bombing in Mariupol. Turns out everyone was handing in the basement which was built to withstand such attacks. The Soviets were thinking about stuff like this.

66 posted on 03/17/2022 9:27:15 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: GOPJ

Who is the message for?

Begs more questions:

Is there anything going on here or Europe that looks weird?

Why would government planes take “important people” anywhere? Are they “going to” some place or “running away” from some lace?

Are the diplomats changing schedules?

If there was some huge dispersal that was a prelude to nuclear war…I doubt very much that Putin would “advertise” it like this.

One data point really doesn’t tell you much. It’s a piece of a puzzle that begs a lot of questions.


67 posted on 03/17/2022 9:27:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: GOPJ

“Why? Why are we suppose to ‘see’ this and what’s ‘the message’?”

Damned if know. If you look at this link, and go to “most tracked flights” you’ll frequently see that drone, several U.S. Air Force and Navy reconnaissance aircraft, and a couple of Strato tankers loitering around Poland and Romania. Again, I have no idea why they don’t turn off their transponders.

https://www.flightradar24.com/47.07,24.1/8#


68 posted on 03/17/2022 9:27:56 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

Dubai is more Russian heavy than Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, SW Mexico City...

More on par with Vienna, Zurich, and the coastline West of Rome, or SOHO NY -


69 posted on 03/17/2022 9:28:42 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: patriotfury

“because of Reagans draconian finance order blocking any and all Banks, Creditors, Corporations, and NGO’s from doing business in the US - if they were doing business with the CCCP.”

GOD NO! REAGAN WAS A SOROS PUPPET TOO? Draconion sanctions? Did he know they had nukes and that would make them mad?


70 posted on 03/17/2022 9:31:06 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: PIF

They are heading to take Alaska by surprise.


71 posted on 03/17/2022 9:48:57 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: marcusmaximus

Sounds like a dry run for a leadership evacuation immediately prior to a first strike. I pray that I’m wrong...but Soviet nuclear doctrine (which will not have changed in 30 years just because they’re not flying a red flag anymore) is to hit first with just about everything, and do so before the other side can get off a single rocket. They were surprised in 1941, and lost 26 million dead; they’re simply not going to allow themselves to be on that end of the equation again.

Meanwhile, we have a POTUS who has been dead wrong on every foreign policy and national security issue over his entire career (he was even against killing Bin Laden - the ONLY one in the feckless, Leftist, cowardly Obama Administration), and that’s when he actually still had the few marbles in his head that he was born with. Now he’s just intent on lining his and his family’s pockets, choosing the ice cream of the day and trying not to crap his pants. Oh, yeah...and egging on a pissed off paranoid with 6,000 nuclear weapons.

What could go wrong?


72 posted on 03/17/2022 9:50:16 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: aimhigh

They are heading to take Alaska by surprise.


Or else gathering loot, mistresses and heading to Dubai ... the other possibility for their flight is they already know Pootie is going nuclear ...


73 posted on 03/17/2022 9:54:20 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cgbg

this guy from a 2018 lecture:

Aleksei Djuminc, Russian Hero award for rescuing Yanukovych in 2014 from Fascists in Ukraine (Putin’s Nazis)

A Major General and Deputy Minister of Defense. Like in chess, Djumic has been ‘castled’ in Tula district near Moskva to wait until 2024 - has hard track record so he can be seen as someone to save the Russian people. Was good goal keeper for Putin’s hockey team - which is where the puck goes when Putin shoots, an allegory. Knows the boyar game well (oligarch thievery rules).


74 posted on 03/17/2022 9:58:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DesertRhino
That is according to an opposition journalist. Not confirmed in any meaningful way.

Except that anyone who wants to can go on one of the flight tracking websites and see for themselves.

75 posted on 03/17/2022 10:05:08 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: marcusmaximus

Maybe my last change to utter defiance and a good hearty “…and the horse you rode in on”. This is directed to the world’s elites.

The Uber-wealthy and powerful, the apparatchiks of both America and Russia will hover in their deep blast-proof bunkers as they unleash an ELE on us peasants. They have taken us all for fools, because most of us (not here, I’m speaking generally) are. We are facing an ELE because of the purple-haired freaks, the sexpolitiks and pedophiles, the smug arrogant self-appointed elites were too f*cking stupid to place America’s interests over their own.

We The People (not us) were too f*cking stupid to confront the Democrat corruption cartel. We The People include too many feminists and women with Daddy issues to exert one scintilla of common sense in choosing our leaders.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering Elites; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

To the survivors: you would be justified in dragging those who placed us in this circumstance out into the streets to exact justice.


76 posted on 03/17/2022 10:16:00 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Prepare for the Rat false flag mass shooting diversion.)
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To: COBOL2Java

“Depends on whether Putin is in the cabin or tied to the wing.”

LOL.

Leave it to Ivan to think of a new way to kill someone. Outside of Lubyanka prison...

Better than polonium.

5.56mm


77 posted on 03/17/2022 10:19:47 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: lodi90

Possible getting ready for a counterstrike after they level Kiev with a dozen Vacuum bombs or a single Nuke.


78 posted on 03/17/2022 10:22:29 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I just realized I’m stuck working from home until 4 and my house is bone dry. Soon as I’m off I’m going to buy a bottle of expensive Kentucky bourbon to keep on hand for when the missiles fly. You’ll see me in the street guzzling Buffalo Trace in my jammie pants and bathrobe, firing my .40 into the air at the warhead.


79 posted on 03/17/2022 10:29:54 AM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: Paperpusher

It is only March 17.

Orthodox Easter 2022:
Sunday, April 24


80 posted on 03/17/2022 10:51:58 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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