My money is on the Russians knowing something about the state of the Assad regime that the rest of us do not and that they will be there, as they were in Kosovo, to ensure “the peace” when things start getting a bit shakey. A ceasefire declared, the Russians move in to secure airfields, chemical weapons sites, etc, to…

Pretty sure the Chinese will buy them.

Design looks.. I dunno... familiar somehow...

Relevent (well, from the five minute mark anyway)

Ahhhhh Russia.

“I would have liked to see Montana... Alabama... Anywhere really...”

Seems to be a fairly standard ex-Soviet trick. There’s lots of video of similar with choppers or even fighter aircraft.

Odd camo scheme for a F-16. Aggressor squadron?

Ooo.. Bad guys too :)

Schweitzer colour scheme!

That’s a whole lotta mean-looking planes. :)

Pretty sure it was the will of Allah that some idiots breathed their last that day.

Oh, man. That was just dumb.

Firing an AK... somewhat ironic.

Never heard of the massacre so I went to Wikipedia to read up a little on it.

And bullet holes...

But largely that that was to distract Beria who was overseeing the operation (and threatened pretty much everyone with nasty nasty death) from noticing that they’d used different gauge steel (or maybe aluminium, anyways, metric rather than imperial measurements) pretty much everywhere and completely…

“Obama is a closet Islamist Shite”

Welcome to the quagmire.

Hearts and minds.

I was wondering whether this crash was responsible for the jet engine that was reported as landing in a trailer park on Imgur (‘coz South = trailer park) but now I’m starting to think there’s a different jet flying around without an engine.