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Samir

5 years

mass grave sites in Raqqa which were prepared by IS early in 2017 in advance to their loss of the province and the city to the SDF are visible on Google Earth

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Samir

@obretix

2 years

Moschun (Мощун) village NW of Kyiv, before and after "denazification" by the Russian military almost every single house damaged or destroyed, inhabitants evicted

Isobel Koshiw

@IKoshiw

2 years

I'm only just starting to understand the scale and extent of Russian atrocities in Kyiv region over the past 2 weeks. It's unbelievable. It's not just Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel, Borodyanka etc. Dozens of smaller villages were completely terrorized, cut off, people were executed.

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this isn't White Phosphorus, these are thermite incendiary submunitions which are in fact even worse. we've seen similar footage of these unguided 9M22S incendiary Grad rockets in use by the Russians in Syria countless times before

Rohit Kachroo

@RohitKachrooITV

2 years

Mayor of Irpin says Russia targeted suburbs of Kyiv with white phosphorus last night. Here’s what we saw from the centre of Kyiv.

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2 years

bad weekend to paint a Z on Snake Island

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gigantomanic monstrosity in the Saudi desert is actually under construction

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Russian/Wagner mercs setting up a mass grave near a former French military base in Gossi, Mali (coordinates 30P XC 87727 50343) observed by a French MQ-9 drone

western civilization on the catalaunian plains

@terrornerds

2 years

today in News From The Colonies: Russians half-buried bodies near a military base the French recently handed over to Mali and filmed the "mass grave" they "found" as part of an anti-French propaganda effort The French filmed the Russians burying the bodies and filming it.

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@obretix

3 years

about 4km northeast of Sheikh Zuwayid

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1 year

some 100km west of St. Louis a place called Bellflower in the lower left corner there

Haley Britzky

@halbritz

1 year

📸: The Pentagon has provided & confirmed authenticity of this selfie taken by a U-2 pilot flying by the Chinese surveillance balloon. CNN reported earlier this month that the photo had reached legendary status in the Pentagon and NORAD.

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Iranian Ghadr missile debris geolocated near Arad

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2 years

RuAF Su-25SM

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@OzKaterji updated chart

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damaged/destroyed radar of the S-300 air defense battery near Isfahan today

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@BBCYaldaHakim unpaywalled

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6 years

U-2 flying in the desert of eastern Syria captured on satellite image on 6 Aug 2018

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2 years

satellite image of Damascus International Airport shows fresh impacts of airstrikes on both runways today

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1 year

both runways at Damascus International Airport appear damaged by the Israeli airstrike last night on the latest Sentinel-2 satellite image

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@obretix

2 years

wut? Google Maps never hid Russia’s "secret military & strategic facilities". Google is in the ad business.. they rarely care about anyone's demand of updated imagery anywhere but pursuing commercial interests

OSINT UK

@jon96179496

2 years

Google Maps has stopped hiding Russia’s secret military & strategic facilities. Allowing anyone in the public to view. Open sourcing all secret Russian installations: including ICBMs, command posts and more with a resolution of 0.5m per pixel.

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@Martin_Zabel @Oded121351

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3 years

IAF F-16I captured on satellite image banking hard right over Gaza, Jabalia on 17 May 2021

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3 years

geolocation of an alleged Russian Iskander missile strike on Azaz Hospital

Status-6 (Military & Conflict News)

@Archer83Able

3 years

In the midst of the drama with Pashinyan, Russian Defense Ministry published a video of Iskander missile launches in Syria, some hits also shown. 9K728 Iskander-K cruise missile variant seen on the beginning.

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3 years

geolocation of Onur Gencer posing with a gun at this Turkish military base overlooking Sajur river valley

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4 years

Turkey deploying two MIM-23 Hawk air defense systems at al-Watiyah Air Base (3 Jul 2020)

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@obretix

2 years

one example of how it looks like at the receiving end

Qalaat Al Mudiq

@QalaatAlMudiq

5 years

#Syria : video showing incendiary bombardment's direct hit on village of Tamanah in SE. #Idlib countryside. Apparently delivered by artillery.

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3 months

Tower 22

Natasha Bertrand

@NatashaBertrand

3 months

US Central Command has just confirmed. All three service members killed were Army, officials told us.

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2 years

@David_Hambling no, these aren't "harmless military flares" either, this is incendiary ammunition. even if Russian troops aren't well equipped with night vision gear they don't set everything on fire with incendiary ammunition just for illumination purposes

MFA Russia 🇷🇺

@mfa_russia

2 years

#DebunkingFakes The anti-Russian #fakenews factory is not slowing down. No matter how ridiculous or unfounded, all fakes are picked up & legitimized by the MSM. The newest low is passing off harmless military flares as phosphorus bombs 🤦‍♂️ #Think4Yourself

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location of last night's explosion about 15km east of Tehran on Sentinel-2 satellite image

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2 years

footage from TB2 drone observing Kherson air base from a distance of ~48km

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2 years

systematic and routine execution of men, women, elderly by Assad regime militia/intel service.. civilians randomly snapped from local checkpoints, hurled into specifically prepared pits dug in streets of Tadamon to execute the victims with minimal effort

Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal

After a rookie militiaman secretly watched a video of 41 people being brutally killed, he knew he had to get the horrific images to the outside world

www.theguardian.com

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@obretix

4 years

six Emirati Mirage 2000-9 deployed to Sidi Barrani Air Base, Egypt captured on satellite image yesterday (5 May 2020)

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2 months

fairly sure the IDF posted a video clip of the same strike on four people walking in southern Khan Yunis matching the footage that Al Jazeera got from a different point of view

צבא ההגנה לישראל

@idfonline

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עוד חוסלו חוליות חמושות שפעלו סמו�� לכוחות במרחב. לוחמי צוות הקרב של חטיבה 7 ממשיכים בטיהור מרחב מערב חאן יונס. ביממה האחרונה הכוחות פשטו על יעדי טרור בהם אותרו נשקים מסוג קלאצ'ניקוב, רחפנים, משגר RPG, מטעני נפץ וציוד צבאי נוסף>>

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2 years

Russians did the same in Syria and bombed grain silos claiming these were oil storage facilities

Matthew Miller

@StateDeptSpox

2 years

Newly declassified intelligence sheds light on Russian forces' attacks on Ukrainian grain terminals – including an attack on the Nika-Terra Grain Terminal in Mykolaiv on or around June 4. The world must hold Russia accountable for its actions that undermine global food security.

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2 years

geolocation

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2 years

geolocation of a video showing missiles launched from Khasabad

Aleph א

@no_itsmyturn

2 years

Another video from missile launches from Khasabad military base in eastern Azerbaijan province of #Iran

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7 months

an Israeli airstrike cratered both runways at Damascus International Airport two days ago the same exact spots were targeted before and patched multiple times already

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@obretix

7 months

an Israeli airstrike cratered the heavily patched runway of Aleppo airport in two locations yesterday the airport remains out of service at least until tomorrow

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1 year

Bayraktar Akıncı drones at Batman Air Base

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2 years

here we are, ten years late. this exact phrase is what made me open a twitter account. whatever you can't "independently verify" i can, with forensic accuracy

Rasha Elass

@RashaElass

2 years

This is horrific and I'm so glad the @BBCWorld and other international media are verifying such atrocities, b/c when I covered Syria most int'l media coverage included the disclaimer that they "could not independently verify" whatever atrocious event they were covering.

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Iran's mock-up of the F-35 hangars at Nevatim airbase geolocated ~65km south of Shahrud it was used for target practice with missiles launched from Chabahar on 10 or 11 January 2024

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2 years

WarGonzo geolocated

49°12'45.7"N 37°14'47.0"E

www.google.com

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2 years

it's already visible from space alright (emphasis mine) so we could stop here and do something useful instead?

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1 year

debris from the airplane that was collected is still spread out at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran

Air Safety #OTD by Francisco Cunha

@OnDisasters

1 year

#OTD in 2020: Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a B-737, is shot down by Iranian Military in Tehran (Iran), all 176 aboard died. Attack occurred during a period of escalating military tension in the Region. Iran later admitted downing the jetliner with missiles.

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4 years

geolocation

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2 years

Russian military using @googlemaps as base layer of the software to navigate their drones

QalaatM

@QalaatM

2 years

Syria: Russia released a video showing use of Orlan-10 reconnaissance drones. Area they are monitoring is geolocated: Khalkhalah Airbase NE. of Suwayda. UAV has "Excellent optics allowing you to see in detail any object from above".

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7 months

@DavidClinchNews @AricToler this one was just before 7pm local and possibly matches the location

Alberto Fierro

@albertofierroal

7 months

He ido al directo de Al Jazeera y he sacado los dos minutos previos a lo que parece que es la explosión del hospital. Se ve en el minuto anterior a la explosión varios lanzamientos de cohetes y también explosiones en tierra previa.

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4 years

Turkish MIM-23 Hawk air defense system near al-Mastumah

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1 year

@mr_gh0stly by cruising along the balloon's path on Google Earth from Montana to Missouri at an altitude of ~30km looking north and spot the two river valleys (Mississippi and Illinois river) in the background

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2 years

more about these kind of rockets in this piece by @David_Hambling

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1 year

Basina (بسنيا) village in NW Syria

Omar Haj Kadour

@omar_hajkadour

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2 years

Russian Orion drones were deployed to Kirovske/Kirovskoye airfield in Crimea in spring 2021 a drone shelter was set up but got destroyed in bad weather in July 2021. new shelters are now under construction in the northern section of the base (13 May 2022)

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2 years

geolocation of the Iranian Dimona reactor target

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2 years

Russian TOS-1A in Trostianets

Rob Lee

@RALee85

2 years

A Russian TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS system reportedly in Trostianets, Sumy Oblast.

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2 years

@David_Hambling in its effort to "OSINT-debunk" their use of thermite incendiary cluster ammunition in Ukraine the @mfa_russia is also posting footage which was copied from Amaq News Agency, a news outlet of ISIS ("an organization which is banned in Russia")

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4 years

Egyptian military posturing with a fancy mix of jets (Mirage 2000, F-16) and helicopters at Sidi Barrani Air Base last Sunday

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3 years

"undisclosed location"

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3 years

C-17 at Kabul airport half an hour ago (via @SnapMap )

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2 years

they probably thought these were Russian jets, hence the Z

🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker

@UAWeapons

2 years

#Ukraine : The Ukrainian Air force is still alive- seen here are two Ukrainian Su-27 striking Russian facilities on the famous Snake Island in the Black Sea, in remarkable footage filmed by a TB-2 drone. As we can observe, there is serious damage.

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3 years

geolocation of a Hezbollah training camp near Kfar Houneh in southern Lebanon

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launch site of Iranian ballistic missiles geolocated ~45km southwest of Tabriz

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6 months

Beit Lahiya

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian

@manniefabian

6 months

IDF reveals that it recovered Hamas operational plans, maps, command and control charts, communication devices, and the personal details of commanders and operatives in the terror group.

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2 years

so-called filtration camp in Bezimenne (Безіменне) village, on the main road east of Mariupol

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are reportedly being taken to what are being referred to as filtration camps in Russia, where their passports and phones are being taken away, and family members are being separated, the U.S ambassador to the UN said.

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1 year

runway of Aleppo airport again appears cratered in four places on recent satellite image following last night's Israeli airstrike

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Iranian Emad missile debris geolocated in the salt evaporation ponds south of the Dead Sea somewhere between Shiraz and Nevatim airbase

Aurora Intel

@AuroraIntel

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Not sure who this is but hope it's his new LinkedIn or Facebook profile photo.

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geolocation of Turkish strikes in Al-Hawash on 27 Feb 2019 (20:09 UTC+3) 1/7

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5 years

@AbraxasSpa @arawnsley here you go, suckers;-)

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7 months

some fairly unusual Syrian Air Force IL-76 cargo flights by YK-ATA and YK-ATD from Tehran Mehrabad to Aleppo (3x) and to the Russian air base Hmeymim (1x) over the last two weeks

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5 years

about 40 tanks and a number of military trucks delivered from Russia to Syria mid July 2019 at the port in Tartus (18 Sep 2019)

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RAF Tornado on one of its last missions in eastern Syria captured on satellite image on 26 Jan 2019

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2 years

wondering who or what has started this rumor. regarding satellite imagery of Russia nothing has changed on Google Earth/Maps, it's been there in full resolution covering even military and nuclear sites before

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5 years

geolocation of possible WP use (which isn't a chemical weapon by the definition of the CWC) from Turkish artillery, possibly M110 155mm WP shells, in Tell Abyad on 12 Oct 2019 [from 02:52:35 onward]

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3 years

besides the usual Hermes 450 drones the IDF is also using its fleet of Beechcraft King Air B200 "Tzufit" to gather intelligence over northern Gaza, three of them were captured on satellite image on 20 May 2021

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disinformation by the cradle blog still gets a lot of engagement on this platform. who cares that there's no oil infrastructure neither at Harir nor anywhere near Al Asad Air Base let a lone a US base in Halabja

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geolocation of the drone strike on a car in Baghdad that killed some Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba commanders today. debris of a 52.0 kg Hellfire missile at the scene indicates this was an US strike

Levent Kemal

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US Air Force F-35A refueling "above an undisclosed location" over northeastern Syria, west of the Khabur river near Markadah on 30 April 2019

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travel blogger Chloe filmed a number of OTR-21 Tochka tactical ballistic missile systems parked behind a roadblock of empty Tochka missile containers next to the cemetery in Qalaat al-Mudiq an a bunch of tanks further down the road

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3 years

solar powered torture now available at Saydnaya Military Prison (15 Apr 2021)

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7 months

runways at Damascus and Aleppo airports closed again "due to WIP" aka Israeli airstrike according to NOTAM

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian

@manniefabian

7 months

Syrian state-run news agency SANA says Israel targeted the Aleppo and Damascus airports, damaging the runways and putting them both out of service. One killed in the Damascus strike, it says.

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4 years

debris of a cargo plane (An-26/32) destroyed by airstrike on the road turned airstrip ~12km south of Tarhuna (6 Apr 2020)

Oded Berkowitz

@Oded121351

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#Libya - photo purportedly showing the aftermath of the #GNA strike in #Tarhuna that destroyed a cargo plane supplying the #LNA

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geolocation of Egyptian army tanks (red arrow) being moved in direction of the border to Libya

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destroyed tank captured on satellite image in Mariupol

🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker

@UAWeapons

2 years

#Ukraine : The Ukrainian Marines destroyed a Russian T-90A/T-72B3M (Unclear at present) and a BTR-82A in the vicinity of #Mariupol .

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"undisclosed location"

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and now, more than half a million dead Syrians later, finally even the BBC can do it too. it doesn't take much, just some patience and persistence and a few technical things anyone can learn from a @bellingcat workshop

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7 months

an Israeli airstrike cratered the heavily patched runway of Aleppo airport in two locations yesterday the airport remains out of service at least until tomorrow

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7 months

damage on the runway of Aleppo airport as a result of another Israeli airstrike yesterday

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7 months

runways at Damascus and Aleppo airports closed again "due to WIP" aka Israeli airstrike according to NOTAM

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TV crew of @Almayadeennews almost got hit by a failed rocket launch from Gaza while livestreaming from Al-Ghefari tower. impact was somewhere in this area on Ibn Sina street (h/t @AuroraIntel )

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smuggling of oil/fuel and bags of grain(?) across the Euphrates river from Ash-Shahil to Buqrus on 17 Mar 2020

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5 years

Reaper drones and ISR planes flying near Hajin captured on satellite image on 13 Nov 2018

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7 years

latest sat image (15 Jul 2017) shows 33 jets at the Russian Air Base in Latakia: 11 Su-24, 3 Su-25, 3+6 Su-27/35, 4 Su-30 and 6 Su-34

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USAF KC-10 refueling USMC F-35B near Leego, Somalia (5 Jan 2021)

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6 years

28 RuAF warplanes at the air base in Hmeymim on 23 Feb 2018: 7 Su-24, 5 Su-25, 4 Su-30, 5 Su-34, 6 Su-35 and a Su-57

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Gaza tonight

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4 years

looks like UAE deployed Hawk air defense system to al-Khadim airbase in northeastern Libya early November 2019

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6 years

lots of planes at Hmeymim air base on 15 Apr 2018: 12 Su-34, 9 Su-24, 3 Su-25, 4 Su-30, 4 Su-35, 2 Il-76, An-26, An-30, 2 A-50, Il-38(?), Il-20/22, An-124 and 2 IRIAF C-130 and 3 SyAAF MiG-29 that were flown to safety from Damascus