Beriev Be-12 Chayka: Old Birds But Still Useful To Russia

What a beautiful old girl?

wrong. Russian have lake os plane to watch the coast... And dont have parts to other not to old planes.

she could be watching for NATO subs sneaking in! she could also be laying mines being patrol planes were and are armed!!!

Probably mining the safe routes of the wheat ships. They already tried to destroy the loading dock once they signed the treaty.

I don't think they use Chaika to lay mines. So far the minefields were completed. Now they are about to clear them. I follow news regularily, I haven't heard of a merchant ship being hit by a mine after the treaty. Yet some mines have arrived near the entry of the Bosporus.

And by the way you cannot destroy a dock with two cruise missiles. A dock is out of massive concrete. The Germans blew up the docks of Cherbourgh in 1944 using their engineers and a large amount of explosives.

love the chaika !😍😍😍😍

The horrible background music makes it impossible to view this clip.

👍😎🍺🍩✈️,

This is like a Grumman albatross on steroids. Does anyone know how long the tail boom is?

They no longer have submarines (or, depending on how you look at it, all they have is submarines, permanent ones), but the Ukrainians are being supplied with submersible drones and other such shenaniganery that presents a danger to both military and civilian vessels of Russia. Using these birds to patrol the winds and the waves is only logical in these circumstances.

"Chaika" translates to "Seagull" in case they didn't mention. I was the Be-12P at Gelendzhik during Gidroaviasalon 2002. It is one of my favorite planes.

Мой любимый самолёт,конструкторское бюро Бериева,ещё несколько машин в строю .

Борт 10 приходилось готовить к полетам в Николаевке в 77/79гг Приморского края.Сейчас в Крыму на службе!