PHOTO: that Ukrainian Antonov An-26 bomber recently...

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PHOTO: that Ukrainian Antonov An-26 bomber recently...

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...after this "virtual barrage of news" :wink: this Friday morning something that is somewhat less "newsy"... :wink:

Taken from
http://militarizm.livejournal.com/13758.html ,
which can be translated into English through
http://translate.google.com .
Even the comments by readers on this feature are of interest. :)
Recently, Ukrainian spotters who were on the annual summer gathering methodical tactical aviation Kulbakino published this gorgeous photo of military transport aircraft An-26 Forces of Ukraine framed four pylons for bombs and suspension actually bombs.

I certainly knew about the possibility of bombs, say with the AN-12 or AN-72 armed, but the ability to install on "little peaceful" AN-26 pylon "for external load up to 500 kg payload" was a revelation to me.

Of course, this photo captures the AN-26 with a very small "payload", but the fact that in addition to threatening the Su-25 and Su-24 similar cargo in Slavic can bring military transport An-26 and An-30 makes somewhat different perspective on what happened almost a month ago, April 22 (at the beginning of the so-called "anti-terrorist operation" in eastern Ukraine) and fire damage fotorazvedchika Ukrainian An-30B over the Slavonic.

Then it caused a strong reaction Ukrainian media, even the prosecutor's office announced the establishment of the case under article "terrorism."
November 2024 update at FokkerNews.nl....
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Re: PHOTO: that Ukrainian Antonov An-26 bomber recently...

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Interesting :shock: How are they aiming? does it have a system for that??
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