Russian Aerospace Forces unexpectedly changed the route of flights to Syrian Khmeimim

Shcherbakov Anton

ВКС России неожиданно изменили маршрут полетов в сирийский Хмеймим | ИАНЕД

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03.11.2020  

For the first time since 2017, the Il-62 airliner of the Russian Aerospace Forces made a flight from Moscow to the Khmeimim airbase in Syria through the territory of Iran.

This was announced on the eve of the Telegram channel "Hunter's Notes". His information emphasizes: " Today, the Il-62 made a rather unusual route to Khmeimim not through the airspace of Turkey, but through Iran . " To prove this, a screenshot of the map from the flight tracking service Flight Radar is published. It can be seen that the indicated aircraft number RA-86572 flew over Syrian land and made a detour over the Caspian Sea and the territories of Iran and Iraq. According to reports, this aircraft has an encrypted special communications system "Surgut".

According to the military observer of the IANED agency, “the unusual route of the airliner can be explained either by Turkey's refusal to allow an additional flight, or by Russia's unwillingness to carry a specific cargo through Turkish airspace. It is possible that its nature must be indicated in the application for overflight clearance. And this is not surprising given the intensification of the Russian and Syrian military in Idlib . "

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