Point is it is not a particularly unique example of support for a regime having trouble with some of its populace.

Don’t get how it is dumb, Assad has shown no sign of falling any time soon. And if he does, the Yak-130s will just go to the RuAF, I am fine with that. Not like a post-Assad Syria will be a breeding ground for big commercial/military deals for Russia anyways.

And until I see the Yak-130 attacking civilians, I don’t find anything sick about it.

Holy crap thats glorious.

For the love of god tell me there is a high res of that.

How can a Yak-130 not be combat capable? It is used for weapons training, has full weapons pylon capability, of course the Syrian example will lack any sort of sophisticated targeting means, but nothing can stop them from strapping on a rocket pod and doing strafing runs with it.

Also, we have this in like two other threads, stop spamming raptor.

Shkval is not on SM/UBM, so no Vikhr.

Su-25UB has less fuel than Su-25 IIRC, but Su-25T has more.

Same.

http://ablogin.ru/category/aviation/

Lots of good recent photos, new scheme-ed Mi-28s, Su-34s, etc.

Is this a modernization program or Ulan-Ude will resume production of Su-25? a couple of years ago I read that the Russian Air Force was going to acquire (not modernize) a number of Su-25UBM.

http://russiadefence.englishboard.net/t465-ulan-ude-resumed-production-of-su-25ubm

Yes, it is true. New UBMs are going to be aquired, while single seat SMs are only modernized examples.

Su-34. New colours of the new Fullback for the Russian Air Forces!:)
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/2054851/L/

Wow, hell of a photo in those colors.

http://s.photosight.ru/img/2/362/4509554_large.jpg

Another photo, I presume from the same series/timeframe, both seem to have the side by side pylons on the belly.

http://forums.airbase.ru/2012/01/t69336,20–proekt-58250-poslednij-shans-ukrainskikh-korabelov.6959.html

From Balancers/Aviabaza:

Apparently ship was redesigned significantly (the Frankenfrigate combination of weapons from everywhere apparently did not work out), Russian weapons adopted, redesigned resulted in ship being wider, so the section already started doesn’t fit. Also money is lacking to put lightly. Prospects not looking good.