Russia may at any time submit to the attack hundreds of aircraft.
Photo alexshakun
Posted on 11/22/2014 5:49:27 PM PST by annalex
Russia may at any time submit to the attack hundreds of aircraft. Photo alexshakun |
The pictures were taken in the summer and autumn of 2014 and the recently published updated on satellite maps from Google.
So, at airbases from Kursk to Taganrog are more than fifty of the MiG-29 squadrons latest Sukhoi Su-34, Su-25 attack helicopters Mi-28.
This allows the Kremlin to order the air strikes in Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Chernigov and Sumy to Nikolaev and Kherson, while he strike can be delivered within a few hours after the order.
So, from the farthest airbase to the Ukrainian border about 250 kilometers, or about 15-20 minutes of flight, and some air bases because of the huge number of aircraft, vehicles are packed literally right next to each other.
It is necessary to specify that all images posted on the Google maps were all taken when Russia began to actively concentrate impact forces on the border with Ukraine. But, as has been stated in the National Security Council, the withdrawal of regular units of the Russian army not only has not occurred, but a concentration of additional forces was recorded.
 Russian airbases in the vicinity of the border with Ukraine |
Airbase Kursk
At 90 kilometers from the border and 130 km from Sumy, Kursk Russian Air Force Base is located Kursk East. At the airbase based 14th Guards Fighter Wing, which is armed with the modernized MiG-29 SMT.
In the picture you can count about three dozen fighters, as well as to observe the activity of military transport aircraft of Russia.
 Airbase Kursk, about 30 MiG-29. Snapshot Google maps from 18/07/2014 |
Buturlinovka Air Base
The base is located 140 kilometers from the border and 250 kilometers from Lugansk. It houses the 47th Voronezh Mixed Aviation Regiment. In service with the regiment are the latest Sukhoi Su-34, which are intended for suppression of air defense and precision strike.
Total Airbase can count about two dozen Su-34, as well as a dozen Sukhoi Su-24.
| > |  Buturlinovka Air Base, about 20 Su-34, Su-24 6. Snapshot Google maps from 08.24.2014 |
Borisoglebsk Air Base
The farthest airbase, it is located 350 kilometers from Lugansk and 250 kilometers from the border.
Formally, it is the preparation of the Faculty of attack and bomber aircraft Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School. So, at the airport, you can see about three dozen combat training aircraft Yak-130.
But at the airbase based two dozen Su-25, which are designed to destroy ground targets and air support to ground units.
 Borisoglebsk Air Base, 28 Yak-130 and 23 Su-25. Snapshot Google maps from 22/05/2014 |
Airbase Rostov-on-Don
In Rostov-on-Don at the airport "Central" fixed concentration of combat helicopters Mi-28, Mi-24, as well as military transport Mi-8 and Mi-26.
It is necessary to specify that in Rostov-on-Don is the production capacity Mil, but the plant has its own airfield.
 http://podrobnosti.ua/upload/assets/images/0Rostov.jpg |
Airbase Millerovo
The air base is located in close proximity to the border with Ukraine and the fighting line. So, from Millerovo to the border about 20 miles away, and Luhansk - 50.
At the airport in the pictures can be seen in June about three dozen MiG-29 fighters and six Su-27, as well as one new Mi-28.
At the same time the National Security Council formally confirmed the relocation to the base and interceptor MiG-31, which is the day before the National Security Council briefing of which podrobnosti.ua wrote.
 Millerovo airbase, about three dozen MiG-29, six Su-27. Snapshot Google maps for 06/06/2014 |
Airbase Taganrog
Russian Air Force combat aircraft began to actively use the air base in Taganrog, which is located 100 kilometers from Mariupol. A military expert Dmitry Tymchuk told about it on November 11th.
It is worth noting that in Taganrog on another airbase based ASW aircraft Russian aircraft Tu-142, as well as airborne reconnaissance aircraft A-50.
A-50 - the aircraft airborne reconnaissance, which is able to monitor all the airspace within a radius of 650 kilometers for the purpose of the type of bomber and 300 kilometers for the purpose of type fighter. These aircraft are used not only as a flying radar, but also as command centers, air group guides for specific purposes.
 Airbase Taganrog, dozens Il-76, Tu-142 and A-50. Snapshot Google maps for 06/30/2014 |
Thus, Russia is not only concentrated major air forces around Ukraine, but also of the latest pulled their weapons very close to the border.
And as reported by the National Security Council, the Russian military moved into full combat readiness in the Donbas.
History repeats itself only in unique ways. That why it is so difficult to profit from history’s lessons. Victor Davis Hanson after a comprehensive dressing down of the current administration concluded by comparing it to late Roman empire, however he seemed to find solace in the fact that it lasted another 500 hundred years before the end. I guess he means Tiberius to Romulus Augustulus and all the good times in between.
Inn the case of Western Roman Empire, Christianity was ascending and the old wineskins built by paganism wore down and finally burst. In the East it continued just fine for another millennium.
In our case we have a foolhardy attempt to impose de-Christianization from the top, that cannot succeed. I don’t see any parallels, really.
Your staunch optimism is uplifting.
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