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Video allegedly showing Russian warplanes refueling over northern Homs,Syria.
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| 9/20/2015
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Posted on 09/23/2015 12:50:22 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Can anyone ID the planes on video?
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aviation; isis; putin; russia; syria
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To: Trumpinator
The shot is pretty far away but I am guessing MIG-29s (Fulcrum).
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posted on
09/23/2015 12:53:03 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
09/23/2015 12:53:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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To: sukhoi-30mki; Jet Jaguar
Pinging the most knowledgeable Milcraft FReepers I know — maybe you guys can ID them.
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posted on
09/23/2015 12:56:18 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
To: BenLurkin
LOL — my second GMTA moment today!
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posted on
09/23/2015 12:56:59 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
To: Trumpinator
Top Gun in Opposite Land. ...giving Barack the finger.
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:04:04 PM PDT
by
TexasCajun
(#BlackViolenceMatters)
To: freedumb2003
If the Russians are re-fueling over Homs that means they are returning from strikes on ISIS over Raqqa (ISIS’ so called capital)?
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:04:10 PM PDT
by
Trumpinator
(You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
To: Trumpinator
That's a pretty good video. I wonder if it was taken with a cell phone?
(Gads, Arabic is a hideous language -- the tongue of Mordor if ever there was one)
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:04:15 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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To: Trumpinator
Looks like Floggers to me. I don’t think Russia would risk losing their CURRENT fighter models over Syria, just as we most likely wouldn’t use F-22’s, but rather F-18’s.
To: BenLurkin
Being called Russian means that this is something Syrians have not seen before or they would have assumed it was local regime air force? I don’t see markings at that resolution?
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:05:43 PM PDT
by
Trumpinator
(You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
To: Trumpinator
Old Ben is just a lowly civilian puke, but I don’t think Syria has any aerial tankers, and I doubt Syrian pilots could fly that ‘formation’ safely.
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:07:24 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Also, that might be an escort mission not a refueling event. Protecting precious cargo those fighters were.
To: Trumpinator
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:08:35 PM PDT
by
Trumpinator
(You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
To: CivilWarBrewing
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:09:52 PM PDT
by
Trumpinator
(You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
To: Trumpinator
Obama’s response will be to give Syria to Russia, and evacuate their radical muslim enemies to Western Europe
Problem solved!
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:14:47 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: CivilWarBrewing
>>Looks like Floggers to me. I don’t think Russia would risk losing their CURRENT fighter models over Syria, just as we most likely wouldn’t use F-22’s, but rather F-18’s.<<
The MIG F-29 Fulcrum is pretty much the same as the F/A 18 Hornet.
The Fulcrum is Variable Geometry which makes it similar to the F-14 Tomcat — we retired that (beautiful) bird due to both politics and the maintenance overhead that VG creates. I suspect Russia did the same for the Mig 27 Fulcrum.
But I am guessing here based on the video and recent history.
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:14:48 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
To: CivilWarBrewing
OOps — I meant the Mig 27 Flogger, not Fulcrum (Mig 29).
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:15:48 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
To: Trumpinator
Look like SU-24 Fencers to me, similar to the old F-111s.
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:17:01 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Trumpinator
If you pause the video to stop the shaking, it looks to me like a Candid refueling sone sort of swing wing, probably too small for Backfires, so I would guess SU-24 Fencers.
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:19:15 PM PDT
by
Wildbill22
(They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
To: Timber Rattler
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posted on
09/23/2015 1:28:42 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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