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BANGKOK -- From their perch in Thailand, air force officers track radar blips of the busy skies above neighboring Myanmar, where Russian-made fighter jets and helicopter gunships are being deployed in aerial attacks as Myanmar's troops increasingly lose control on the ground.
During two days in early April, there were 21 flights "to bomb and for logistics," a highly-placed source in the Thai military told Nikkei Asia.