Shorty84 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) It seems one of the best photo resources for russophile plane enthusiast, russianplanes.net is permanently closed. The reasons are still a bit sketchy but it seems this has to do with the alleged smuggling of drugs via diplomatic post from Argentina to Russia. Argentine gendarmerie released a tape which shows drug packages removed out of a Il-96 (RF-96023), belonging to the State Transport Company Rossiya. Seems the owner of the site “…decided to delete the site, because we have nothing to do with it.” More details see here: https://en.crimerussia.com/drugmafia/flights-registry-deleted-following-the-report-on-supply-of-drugs-from-argentina/ Anyway, that’s a big bow as russianplanes was “the” resource for pictures of russian aircraft for me. Goodby RP, thanks for all the years of enjoyment! Edited February 27, 2018 by Shorty84 Edit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mizar Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Find a good site like the defunct F-4EJ.com,snatch some pictures,keep it bookmarked because you need to look at it and download more stuff,site dies. Every single time.ffs I had to download any picture of Mig-29 9.15 and 9.18,a blasted load of Mig-21UM pics,choppers and so on,finding good stuff for little details and nothing else is becoming impossible due that stupid dmca and spotters only taking artistic pictures,can't even rely to museum stuff due armchair generals demilitarizing them to the ground or employees effin them up for the sake of it Luigi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dnl42 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Try the Wayback Machine. Here's the index page for that site: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://russianplanes.net. Looks like there's at least some content from the Jan 25 snapshot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MoFo Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 4 hours ago, Shorty84 said: Seems the owner of the site “…decided to delete the site, because we have nothing to do with it.” That's... odd... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shorty84 Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) Unfortunately the Wayback machine approach doesn't work. As soon as you click on a thumbnail pic you get nothing, the original pic is lost. Odd is the right word. It seems the problem originated as the media linked the registry of the aircraft with visits of the Russian Foreign and Prime Minister at that time (via RP.net). I can only imagine that the words "drugs", "smuggling" and "Prime Minister" in one article was too much and made some people nervous. Maybe the owner of the site saw that coming and decided to shut everything down before he got "visits" from certain people. I remember that at the beginning of the Russian deployment to Syria you couldn't view images of the aircraft types which were in action at that time (Su-34, Su-30SM, Su-25, ...), I guess for "national security" reasons. Edited February 27, 2018 by Shorty84 Edit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Linden Hill Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Here's why (allegedly). You'd need to read most of the thread to get the full context. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mingwin Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 what an intriguing story... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kotey Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) Owner delete all content after nex: few news agency use his site as source about information of position this Il-96 in one of days. As RP work at vikipedia-type style - anyone can add or correct photo and comments about date and place of photo - owner decided delete all content. And for aviation enthusiasts not so interestingly that the security service of Russian Foreign Afairs Ministry itself found this channel and handed over it to the Argentina police, that freight of cocaine was replaced with flour and it was delivery under control of intelligence agencies to arrest consignees. I'm like this site and use its for decal design. Good bye and farewell. RussianPlanes ! BTW its second time when news agency blocked RP - two years ago owner at this site were deleted all database about Su-24Ms and Su-34 - its used by idetification of aircraft and pilots, who took a part in operation in Syria. But now PR not delete all infiormation about all Il-96s, but delete all content. Edited February 28, 2018 by kotey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mfezi Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I'm very sad about what happened. It was one of the sites I went to every morning for my daily dose of cool aeroplane pictures. As I understand it, the issue that lead to its closure doesn't even have anything to do with the photo section of the site, but rather with the "aircraft spotting" function. I truly wish the owner could have thought of a way to disable that functionality but keep the photo section open. I'm really very disappointed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
breadneck Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 Soccer World cup is coming up. Ain`t nobody got time to service and maintain the site for the time being. Time will tell if my theory will hold up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SinisterVampire319 Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 I hope it comes back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
beingthehero Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 https://russianplanes.net/new Back in action! (and no, not an April Fools Joke.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mizar Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 (edited) if tomorrow goes offline I'm freaking seriously going to invade Russia to wave at Putin and see if he waves me back edit they don't freaking have Mig-29M 9.15 pcs nor good ones for the Mig-21-93 Ok starting a patreon to fund za invasion Luigi Edited April 1, 2018 by Mizar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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AnthonyWan Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 New site search is a little wonky... maybe they're still working on updating. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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