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A Ukrainian drone strike has destroyed a Russian TU-22 long range bomber at an air base south of St Petersburg

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[-] severien@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

The bad news is that Russia still has ~60 of those. The good news is that they can't replace the losses, the production line was scrapped 30 years ago. The supposed successor, PAK DA, continues being a vaporware.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I’d be surprised if more than 30 can actually fly right? I mean, only a fraction of their working tanks were real.

[-] Slwh47696@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

They have 30 sets of spare parts

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

The shitty bomber of Theseus

[-] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

And how many of those have all their parts and are capable of getting airborne?

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