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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by giarc on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:30PM (#11834454)
By the time Russia came along, much of the populated area's were out of harms way. Adding more aircraft that are all using 1 or 2 airports is just more congestion.
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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by rangibaby on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:48PM (#11834504)
An advantage of all Soviet-era planes is they can use any crappy airfield without breaking a sweat.
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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by dogma1138 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:04AM (#11835159)
Russian firefighting aircraft are sea planes they are designed to land in a lake or in littoral waters to take on water they've been very successful at fighting fires in Greece and Israel with using the med as their water supply.
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