Reports are a dozen or so TU-95s damaged/destroyed. Museum on the left, bombers lined up in front of TAC. WSA off map SE of the Google sybol. I bet the Russians "flush the bombers". Most nuke and non nuke ACLMs are at Engles WSA though.
Posted on 12/05/2022 2:52:36 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Explosions have been reported at two airfields in central Russia, hundreds of kilometers to the east of the combat zone in Ukraine. The incidents came as Russia has carried out a massive campaign of air strikes inside Ukraine targeting the country’s power grid and other civilian infrastructure.
At least one large explosion occurred at a Russian military air base in the Saratov region, about 600 kilometers east of Ukraine, while another blast was reported by Russian state media at an airfield outside Ryazan, southeast of Moscow.
Social-media posts by residents in the cities of Engels and Saratov seemed to show a large explosion at the Engels-2 air base at about 6 a.m. local time on December 5.
Saratov Governor Roman Busargin issued a statement calling for local residents to remain calm amid the reports but neither confirmed nor denied them.
“I want to state that no extraordinary events have taken place in the residential parts of the city,” he wrote.
“There is no reason for concern. No civilian infrastructure has been damaged. Information about events at military facilities is being checked by security agencies.”
There has been no confirmed information about the cause of the explosion.
The independent Russian Telegram channel Astra cited unidentified sources as saying an unidentified drone crashed into the base and that two long-range Tu-95 bombers were damaged and two military personnel were injured.
The Engels-2 air base has reportedly been used as a launching platform for Tu-95 air strikes inside Ukraine, against which Russia launched a massive, unprovoked military invasion on February 24.
Also on December 5, the RIA Novosti state news agency reported a fuel explosion at an airfield outside the city of Ryazan, about 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
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Reports are a dozen or so TU-95s damaged/destroyed. Museum on the left, bombers lined up in front of TAC. WSA off map SE of the Google sybol. I bet the Russians "flush the bombers". Most nuke and non nuke ACLMs are at Engles WSA though.
Thats a TU22 backfire. Dyagilevo is training base. Not unusual to have TU22, TU95, TU160s come and go there, though.
LIKE! But why are the Russians allowing photos of their military airplanes’ destruction to leak out?
Ukrainian kamikaze drones cannot come soon enough. To reach into Russian petroleum and military installations.
World War IV will definitely usher in The Great Reset
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