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2023-02-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin's £274million spy plane 'is destroyed in drone attack near Minsk by pro-Ukraine Belarus group'

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-28 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Psyops news media. This is a planted media event. No verification as yet. Tip off also of mythical pro-Ukraine Belarus group.

Posted by Dale 2023-02-28 03:55|| 2023-02-28 03:55|| Front Page Top

#2 48 Hour Rule, Dale. Let’s wait and see if there is outside confirmation of this single source claim.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-28 05:36|| 2023-02-28 05:36|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 48 Hour Rule, Dale. Let’s wait and see if there is outside confirmation of this single source claim.

Russian military blogger had the story a coupla days ago:

Posted by badanov 2023-02-28 07:41|| 2023-02-28 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 This story has been out there a while. All we do know is the plane is destroyed and a anti-Russian group took credit. They have been getting more and more active since the war started and I would bet money they are getting support from western powers.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-02-28 07:55|| 2023-02-28 07:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Just finished reading John Plaster's SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam." To retain deniability for operations in disallowed areas, SOG used to attribute intelligence it had collected or events that SOG was involved in to the "FGU," that is, Friendly Guerilla Unit.

Maybe something like that in this instance too.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-28 08:48|| 2023-02-28 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Several Belarusians have been arrested for sabotaging rail lines and control signals carrying Russian troops and equipment.

Posted by Ebbains Threrenter5475 2023-02-28 09:16|| 2023-02-28 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Russian Spy Plane Worth ₹ 2,737 Crore Destroyed By Drones In Belarus: Report

Inside the secretive anti-Lukashenko group that destroyed a Russian spy plane in Belarus

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-28 10:51|| 2023-02-28 10:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Belarus Official Says Claim Activists Blew up Russian Spy Plane Near Minsk Is Fake

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-28 10:54|| 2023-02-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#9 A satellite image of Machulishchy airfield in Belarus was published by CNN journalist Gianluca Mezzofiore. Signs of damage are visible on the AWACS A-50 airfraft that was attacked.

Posted by Ebbains Threrenter5475 2023-02-28 12:03|| 2023-02-28 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 What's good for the goose...

Same goons will cry foul if Russia starts targeting sponsored/gifted ukr military assets in 'neutral' European Countries.

That'd be so rich, hitting the trains used to transport the tanks and other mil assets to ukr. But we know how Article 51 would be used and invoked.

Posted by mossomo 2023-02-28 12:41|| 2023-02-28 12:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Points: Is it flyable to get it to repairs? Can the Ilyushin boys get the parts to fix it?
This is 1/6 of the russian airborne warning fleet. In the USAF, the rule has been that you have to have six aircraft to keep one in the air continuously. The A-50U's contribution to the events so far is to provide look down radar of Uke poitions and movement. So there's possible holes in the coverage now.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-02-28 19:37|| 2023-02-28 19:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Condemned to take Communist Trailways
Cuz Nazis have blown up your railways?
"And probably Juice!"
How'll you save your caboose?
"Comrade Gitler has shown us!"
Cue Dale's praise.

Fun little Ukro-German-globo-Russo flick along those lines: In the Fog (2012)

Posted by Chunky Jising1138 2023-02-28 21:05|| 2023-02-28 21:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Extra credit for fitting in one of Rantburg’s own with a perfect rhyme, Zenobia F. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-28 23:33|| 2023-02-28 23:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Heh. Clangs like a nine pound steel, though, don't it?

Posted by Chunky Jising1138 2023-02-28 23:58|| 2023-02-28 23:58|| Front Page Top

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