Russia faces struggle to replace bombers lost in Ukrainian drone strikes
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-faces-struggle-replace-bombers-lost-ukrainian-drone-strikes-2025-06-06/
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Russia faces struggle to replace bombers lost in Ukrainian drone strikes
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-faces-struggle-replace-bombers-lost-ukrainian-drone-strikes-2025-06-06/
Posted by 1-randomonium
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Russia’s only able to field such massive resources, including bombers, because it inherited all this from the USSR. With its own economic resources they’ll be naturally defanged in a few more decades when all this Soviet-era hardware is no longer in usable condition. It’s already obsolete; that’s why they’ve had so much trouble conquering Ukraine.
13 bombers/transport plane, while they building 3-4 Tu160 per year. At most it just gonna take 3 years to replenish the losses.
The AWACS A-50 that got hit turn out to be scrap without engine too.
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