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An Epic Flight - Flying the Ilyushin IL-76 Cargo Transporter to Iraq

This week, I flew on the SilkWay Ilyushin IL-76 transporter from Baku to Erbil, Iraq, crewed by a team of five, including two ...
Yahoo

Russia claims to have passed bodies from cargo plane that crashed in early 2024, Ukraine says investigation underway

Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War has confirmed that Russia had handed over the bodies of what it claimed were Ukrainian defenders killed in the downing of the ...
Yahoo

We should know in a month or two whether "Il-76 bodies" are Ukrainian POWs – Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner

It may take up to two months to conduct a forensic examination of bodies which Russia has handed over and claims are the remains of Ukrainian prisoners of war who were killed when an Il-76 military ...
WNCT

Russia investigates the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet in Sudan’s Darfur region

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Monday they shot down a cargo jet in the country’s far western reaches of Darfur, a claim that Russian diplomats said ...
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Russia scraps rare Il-76 aircraft designed to jam Patriot systems

Russia is likely to scrap the rare Il-76PP jamming aircraft. Theoretically, this aircraft was designed to jam even Patriot air defense systems, according to Defence Express. As the media outlet ...
TASS

Russian Emergencies Ministry's airplane brings evacuees from Lebanon to Moscow

BEIRUT, November 5. /TASS/. A group of 97 Russian citizens is being evacuated from Beirut to Moscow aboard a Russian Emergencies Ministry Il-76 aircraft, which had previously delivered humanitarian ...