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Kelsey Atherton (July 23, 2014). "Could this old warplane really shoot down MH17? A weak theory about a strong plane". Popular Science. On Monday morning, someone from an IP address in Moscow edited the Su-25's Russian Wikipedia page to increase the maximum height the plane can reach by about 10,000 feet.
Leaders (July 26, 2014). "A web of lies: Vladimir Putin's epic deceits have grave consequences for his people and the outside world". Economist. The Russian fiction that a Ukrainian fighter jet had fired the missile ran into the problem that the jet could not fly at the altitude of MH17, so Russian hackers then changed a Wikipedia entry to say that the jets could briefly do so.

Sukhoi T-12 Shturmovik-90 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 10 September 2022 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Sukhoi Su-25. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Small grammar edit for the SU-25TM variant paragraph. "the container under fuselage" should be changed to " the container under the fuselage" Largelizard (talk) 23:20, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. I changed it to "in an under fuselage container" as I thought that was an improvement. I hope that suits? - Ahunt (talk) 23:23, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Largelizard (talk) 21:13, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Frogfoot[edit]

Why this reporting name, and what is a frogfoot? Foot of a frog? Thank you, Maikel (talk) 05:59, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I did a li'l bit of research. The initial F stands for Fighter or Fighter/Attack, and the word itself is a two-syllable neologism.

Also, quote: "Frogfoot," the reporting name for the Sukhoi Su-25, references the aircraft's close air support role. Maikel (talk) 07:46, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]