daxiong, here’s a .kmz file (works if you have Google Earth, if you don’t have it, you can download it for free). You’ll find in this file placemarks for MiG-15/17/19/21/23 and Su-25 (the latter can be seen very clearly, even the roundel on the wings is visible)

FOX NEWS is reporting over 60 tanks been destroy since the war started almost 30 days ago!.comment anyone?

No way. Around 25 vehicles (tanks, APCs and armoured buldozers) have been hit so far – damage ranging from a few pieces of add-on armour smashed to crew compartment and weapon compartment breaches (the messy ones). Most vehicles hit are repairable, even if towed away.

The pair of Su-27 Fulcrums shipped

It’s Su-27 FLANKER

regarding the ex-Moldovan Flankers

Surely you mean FULCRUMS as Moldova never had any Su-27 Flanker, only MiG-29 Fulcrum

That is definitely wrong, when you look at serial numbers (250-251.serie) they were built in fall 1987 or spring 1988 exactly.

Serials for Yugoslav MiG-29A were 18101-18114 and UB 15301,15302.
They were delivered in 1987, after refurbisment (being ex-SovAF in storage)

Did they blame anything else?

SPO-15 RWR and sometimes radios.

Also russians have had enough time and opportunities to remove all the “sensitive” equipment like the jammer Gardenyia

Gardenyia were removed right after the demise of the USSR, in 1991, before the Soviet troops got out of Moldova. That’s why a Moldovan MiG-29 was shot down in the 1992 civil war by an SA-3 battery of the Soviet 14th army.

Remember those Serbian Mig-29 pilots claiming their radars suddenly did not work during missions over Yugoslavia in 1999? I doubt that pilots were taking-off for a combat mission knowing that their radars are defective.

I can’t say what happened exactly, but the Serbian MiG-29s definately had big serviceability problems. They were second-hand ones bought in 1987 from the USSR and were intended to be a stop-gap until the “Novi avion” came into being. Those planes were among the first series-produced Fulcrums (1983-84) and should have been taken out of service by 1996-98.

There is a need for secrecy in this cases also for protecting the (non-US) individuals involved. I don’t believe the FSB would send a chocolate box to the middle men from Ukraine or Belarus involved in the Su-27 business.
Think abouit the “Have Doughnut” program (MiG-21F-13 evaluation), which took place in 1968. Almost everything is declassified about it, EXCEPT the source of the MiG (rumored to be Indonesia or Israel)