There are some indications that the plane was transporting a crew to pick up a A-50 from the factory. This would be a very bad blow to RUAF airborne surveilance efforts
Heh. Cool
I hate it. Told you several times, you need to plan in advance to travel with fully loaded aircrafts.
Oh!
Anyway…
So 150+ people aboard?
BTW: The plane that crashed was (again) an IL-76.
If you want to build an A-50 (or its successor A-100), you need an IL-76 as a base.
According to Wikipedia 969 IL-76 were built since 1971, referring to this list: https://russianplanes-net.translate.goog/planelist/Ilushin/Il-76/78/A-50?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp#years
This makes an average of 18 built per year.
Average, because 65 were built in 1988, at this time in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, production was relocated to Ulyanovsk, Russia.
According to the list IL-76 built in 2023: 5 (five).
Awesome news
I feel a lot worse for the Ukrainians that have been killed since the beginning of the invasion.
Unpopular opinion, kinda feel a little for the crew, the plane is unarmed, can’t punch out, a giant flying sitting duck. It’s war, I get it. But never understood why cargo planes (of any nation) didn’t have ejection seats or at least parachutes, given they fly in active combat zones.
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hit by an extended range Boris Jonson?
Russians using Boeing planes now.
There are some indications that the plane was transporting a crew to pick up a A-50 from the factory. This would be a very bad blow to RUAF airborne surveilance efforts
Heh. Cool
I hate it. Told you several times, you need to plan in advance to travel with fully loaded aircrafts.
Oh!
Anyway…
So 150+ people aboard?
BTW: The plane that crashed was (again) an IL-76.
If you want to build an A-50 (or its successor A-100), you need an IL-76 as a base.
According to Wikipedia 969 IL-76 were built since 1971, referring to this list:
https://russianplanes-net.translate.goog/planelist/Ilushin/Il-76/78/A-50?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp#years
This makes an average of 18 built per year.
Average, because 65 were built in 1988, at this time in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, production was relocated to Ulyanovsk, Russia.
According to the list IL-76 built in 2023: 5 (five).
Awesome news
I feel a lot worse for the Ukrainians that have been killed since the beginning of the invasion.
Unpopular opinion, kinda feel a little for the crew, the plane is unarmed, can’t punch out, a giant flying sitting duck. It’s war, I get it. But never understood why cargo planes (of any nation) didn’t have ejection seats or at least parachutes, given they fly in active combat zones.