The Belaruski Hajun monitoring community reported unusually high activity of a Boeing 747-4FTF transport jet of the Air China Cargo company in the Minsk airport, belarus. The aircraft carried out four flights two-way between China and belarus within January 8–11. The planes arrived at approximately the same time early in the morning and spent about three hours there, an average amount of time necessary to unload cargo.
Moreover, the community emphasized that transporters from China occupied an atypical stand on the apron which is intended for government planes, including those used exclusively by the country's self-proclaimed president, Alexander Lukashenko. This VIP spot is located separately, at a certain distance from the others, next to the shortest route to the airport exit with no inspection required.
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According to researchers from Belaruski Hajun, the plane of the Chinese airline was delivering military equipment to belarus, which was taken out of the airport as quickly and secretly as possible, so as not to attract unnecessary attention. "What exactly these four boards have brought this time is not yet known. But everything points to this cargo being of military purpose," the source notes.
As noted, one of the possibilities is that this way China "secretly" supplies weapons through belarus to the russian army. However, it is more likely that the the Chinese transport jet brought weapons for the armed forces of belarus.
Especially since, for example, Chinese CS/VN3 Dajiang armored vehicles were adopted by the belarusian army in 2017, and the following year, the same Chinese airline delivered the vehicles by a Boeing 747-4FTF with registration number B-2475. Therefore, belarusian army may announce receipt of a new batch of 16–20 Dajiang vehicles this month.
The report also mentions that the belarusian Polonez multiple-launch artillery rocket system uses rockets with Chinese components, and this could be another explanation of what the Chinese plane was carrying to belarus for four days in a row. Earlier Defense Express drew attention to the fact russia was particularly interested in this rocket system, which could cast a shadow on the prospects of further Chinese-belarusian cooperation on this joint project.
Also, last year we reported about Chinese companies producing attack drones for the russian army, and took a look at a video of a Chinese Desertcross all-terrain vehicle used by russian soldiers to drive over their own comrades on the frontlines in Ukraine.
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