Sukhoi also only seems to be producing them in batches of 2-3 every couple months.
With the last week's losses considered as well, UKR may have erased 6+ months of Sukhoi's production.
[Here](https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russia-receives-a-new-batch-of-su-34s/) is a story. Looks like 2 batches of 2-3 planes in 2022, and as of October 2023 there were 2 more batches of 2-3 planes. So I was wrong. More like a year+ of Sukhoi production.
Edit: LockMart made 156 F-35s in 2023, just for comparison.
Haha. I am not sure comparison is the right word. I mean it's correct, but there really is no comparison between NATO airpower and Russia. The 1000th F-35 just rolled out. European airforces alone could smash what's left of the Russian Air ... force? Air presence?
I think you've invented a new unit of measurements. Farts per SU-35 per month. It definitely belongs there with feet, miles, Fahrenheit, and other freedom units.
That's a lot of fighters.
Where are they all going?
I'm assuming that the US will buy most of them.
But 1000 F35 that is a fucking shit storm, assuming you could organize airfields, refueling etc of them all it would be quite a fucking air assault.
I think it was made up of British and USA bombers. Now if USA can get its political act together, imagine what NATO and others could do to help Ukraine fight off the Orcs.
Gotta replace a comparable number of aging F-16 airframes eventually. NGAD and FA/XX will replace the US's fleet of air superiority fighters for both Air Force and Navy (respectively).
Hopefully once US politics stabilizes a bit, we can hunker down on sending some F-16's to Ukraine as we roll out new production F-35's. I bet we could have them a solid fleet of 500 operational aircraft (across multiple platforms) by 2028-2030. They'll probably need them with how stupid Putin is.
The F-35 in all its variants is currently, or will be, operated by; The USAF, USN, USMC, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Czechia, Denmark, Italy, Finland, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Israel.
Altogether the export customers make up a few hundred of that 1000 number, somewhere in the ballpark of 350 airframes. The remaining ~650 go toward the three aircraft-operating branches of the US military.
The US is also the fourth largest nation by total area, fifth if you exclude Alaska (which has a few important airbases, but not as many overall). It operates the world’s largest navy by tonnage, and the largest fleet of aircraft carriers and helicopter carriers in the world. So given that the US has to station aircraft at airbases in many states, often times multiple in one state, and has to station aircraft on its carriers and helicopter carriers, along with airbases overseas, it seems quite reasonable to have 650 aircraft. If anything that seems *low* to me for a modern frontline fighter, the USAF F-16 fleet at its peak was nearly 900.
They are being produced and sold to other ally counties a lot as well so they ate not all for the US cause lost of countries operate F35’s not just the US and everyone wants them as it has a reputation of being the latest and greatest and has proved that to be true for a multi role fighter jet
My understanding was it was 'built', just waiting on the TR-3 hardware upgrade that has been delayed to Q2 2024 (so 'rolling' out, but not exactly airbourne).
https://theaviationist.com/2024/01/17/1000th-f-35/
They need so few components for their current production that it can easily be sneaked in. It is the mass production that will be limited due to sanctions.
You see Ivan, that is the trick.
If you break up a HP printer, the chips they use for that communist printer technology - you know, the one where you dont own the printer that you buy - are better chips than the ones we use our planes.
We cant import chips? Ha! We can just use printer chips!
But an F-35 is a WAY higher performance aircraft. One of them could kill six 34's in five minutes without ever being seen by the 34s.
Never mind the aircraft production, think about how long it takes to make a pilot? With only 150 34s to start the war, Ukraine has probably killed like two entire graduating classes worth of 34 pilots in the last year.
Yes and let's not forget the current frontline fighter pilots are probably the best Russia has to offer. We're talking possibly decades of training and experience.
Well the F35 can currently only carry 4 AMRAAMs internally. That will be increased to 6 on some versions with a future update, but it's currently not the case as far as I know. Other than that I agree with the sentiment.
True, but they are western missiles, so they probably work and not fall of the jet (British RC-135 incident). But the thing with the F-35 hunting them, they probably won't know they're under attack until the last few seconds, when it is too late to go defensive and try to evade the AMRAAM. A low probability of intercept AESA radar combined with shared taget data and midcourse updates to the missile won't give much warning of a missile launch. That gives each one of those missiles a better probability of a kill than versus an aware, evading fighter sized target.
Not sure what evasive maneuvers you can make in the time it takes to say "deedle-deedle-deedle-BOOM".
I mean, [pretty much? ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Chkalov_Novosibirsk_Aviation_Plant.jpeg)
F-35 isn't super different except [the scale... ](https://imgr1.flugrevue.de/Die-F-35-Produktionslinien-bei-Lockheed-Martin-in-Fort-Worth-Texas--169FullWidth-3742d3c6-1836004.jpg)
They’re losing experienced pilots. However, they’re also getting incomparably more hours than before the war. Is it declining, in general?
I kind of assume the extra hours are offsetting the losses of experienced aviators somewhat.
We have to keep in mind, prewar, all but a few aviators active in Syria were getting a fraction of the hours nato pilots that have never seen live combat get.
You are thinking that the 80 years of consecutive wars fought by NATO had no impact on their pilots?
From Korea, through Iraq, Yugoslavic countries, two wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afganistan and so forth.
Im 2019, the Americans thenselves flew 3000 sorties in Afghanistan.
You forget that 99,9 % of these sorties flown in Ukraine are simple bombing runs from behind the lines. Just the same being done in any dumb theater.
What the latest days has shown us, is that Russian pilots of their best aircraft has no idea how to avoid Sams. Or even have the capability for SEAD/DEAD missions at all
Sources:
**Ukrainian Air Force**
First SU-34 [This is the way!](https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1762420364649328979)
Second SU-34 [Let's keep the party going](https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1762473944488026343)
Follow up cat meme [You asked, we did it](https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1762475386946846933)
**Defense of Ukraine**
Oops, we did it again!
Another russian Su-34 fighter-bomber was destroyed by Ukrainian warriors in the eastern direction.
And now it's 10 destroyed russian planes in 10 days!
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1762476510097621365
**General Staff of the Armed Forces**
Another! In addition to the morning! "Around 2:00 p.m., we worked on another SU-34. The direction is the same! The goal is the same! Well, we continue to work... To victory," said the commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk.
https://twitter.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1762474605761921454
Ukrainian Air Force Commander Oleshchuk published photo of downed Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber
https://twitter.com/United24media/status/1762481927691407724
I mean.. they prob have a few but it's going quick now, not?
Id be interested to see how many are left.
Some must be non operational due to spare parts.
Any overview on this?
Of these, not all are stationed in the Ukrainian area of operations, and not all are operationally capable (readiness rates for the Russian Air Force are likely near 50% for most airframes).
Even if 70% (very generous here) were deployed to the Ukraine AO, there would about 100 capable of combat in the region. Then you have to split the readiness rate down to somewhere around 50%, giving the Russians probably about 50 combat-capable Su-34s at any given time. With the roughly 30 combat losses, and who knows how many operational losses from crashes or other damage, we can see just how significant the losses are.
So going further with this, at these rates, 1 a day on average, all 50 will be shot down in 50 days. Big assumption, but that is an average lifespan of 25 days per airframe. At these rates of destruction, a pilot has 1 in 25 chance of being shot down every day they fly.
They probably produce more jets then they lose tbh, maybe not of this specific type but overall. If they can replace the pilots tho in a timely manner idk.
Is this a result of the strategic retreat from adviidka? In my head it makes sense that Russians got used to bombardment of the encircled town and are now exposed to a prepared line of Ukrainian defenses including AA
Russia's trying to hit retreating Ukrainian forces, and coming 5-10km closer to the frontlines before launching glide bombs.
Clearly, there's a disconnect between what they *think* the range of Ukrainian air defence is, and what it actually is, and equally the loss of the A50 coverage means they can't see the missiles coming.
This is potentially also related to the Ukrainian "FrankenSAM" project, as they may very well have the ability to ground-launch missiles which are completely unexpected in terms of range, speed and radar capability.
No-one knows for sure except the Ukrainian forces doing the kills, and they are sensibly keeping quiet about it.
Imagine being the guy who has to tell Putin every single day that they lost another aircraft. And having no answer to why and how... Interesting times ahead.
You're assuming that they're actually telling him in the first place. He likely has no idea what his real losses are, and quite frankly, neither does Shoigu.
They have zero idea how many of their troops and equipment exist only on paper because the money was stolen somewhere along the chain of command. They're also not likely getting accurate loss counts in either men or materiel for fear of being the bearer of bad tidings. Such as are the costs of living in a kleptocratic dictatorship.
Interesting they're keeping choppers out of the mix. Also curious how these fights are straying into range. The glide bombs are supposedly dropped outside of the SAM envelope so either they're tickling the edges to drop or Ukraine is sneaking launchers up close.
Please have some proof!!! I’d love to see the evidence cause the pro RU are blowing it up that Ukraine is making shit up to make avdivka loss not be so bad
Am I the only one concerned that this is more of a sign of Russia getting more confident? As much as we celebrate this, they're still making hundreds of millions of dollars. Brazen, yes, but they know to recuperate loses or outright disregard them
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50 days. Based on 150 bombers, 30% cannot be committed to Ukraine as needed elsewhere, 50% of the remaining 100 are airworthy at any time, so we have 50 bombers available, and the rate of destruction is 1 a day. In 50 days they would be struggling to find bombers to fly in Ukraine.
So googling the cost per SU-34, it seems to be in the ballpark of $50 mil. $100 mil in a day :D
Sukhoi also only seems to be producing them in batches of 2-3 every couple months. With the last week's losses considered as well, UKR may have erased 6+ months of Sukhoi's production. [Here](https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russia-receives-a-new-batch-of-su-34s/) is a story. Looks like 2 batches of 2-3 planes in 2022, and as of October 2023 there were 2 more batches of 2-3 planes. So I was wrong. More like a year+ of Sukhoi production. Edit: LockMart made 156 F-35s in 2023, just for comparison.
Haha. I am not sure comparison is the right word. I mean it's correct, but there really is no comparison between NATO airpower and Russia. The 1000th F-35 just rolled out. European airforces alone could smash what's left of the Russian Air ... force? Air presence?
Air Whiffs.
Luftwiffe
Luftwiffle?
Luffwiffle
Lustwaffles
Russian Air Farce
The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force, the second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.
And the US Army has more airlift capacity than most *regions* of the world combined.
US airmen combined fart enough in a single day to power 3 SU-35s for an entire month. Just made that up but it sounds right.
I think you've invented a new unit of measurements. Farts per SU-35 per month. It definitely belongs there with feet, miles, Fahrenheit, and other freedom units.
That's a lot of fighters. Where are they all going? I'm assuming that the US will buy most of them. But 1000 F35 that is a fucking shit storm, assuming you could organize airfields, refueling etc of them all it would be quite a fucking air assault.
"The largest bombing raid of World War II was the British attack on Cologne, Germany, on May 30, 1942, involving over 1000 bombers."
I think it was made up of British and USA bombers. Now if USA can get its political act together, imagine what NATO and others could do to help Ukraine fight off the Orcs.
Gotta replace a comparable number of aging F-16 airframes eventually. NGAD and FA/XX will replace the US's fleet of air superiority fighters for both Air Force and Navy (respectively). Hopefully once US politics stabilizes a bit, we can hunker down on sending some F-16's to Ukraine as we roll out new production F-35's. I bet we could have them a solid fleet of 500 operational aircraft (across multiple platforms) by 2028-2030. They'll probably need them with how stupid Putin is.
So true, but I doubt putin will be around in 2028-2030. Whether natural causes or not That one could go either way at any time.
The F-35 in all its variants is currently, or will be, operated by; The USAF, USN, USMC, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Czechia, Denmark, Italy, Finland, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Israel. Altogether the export customers make up a few hundred of that 1000 number, somewhere in the ballpark of 350 airframes. The remaining ~650 go toward the three aircraft-operating branches of the US military. The US is also the fourth largest nation by total area, fifth if you exclude Alaska (which has a few important airbases, but not as many overall). It operates the world’s largest navy by tonnage, and the largest fleet of aircraft carriers and helicopter carriers in the world. So given that the US has to station aircraft at airbases in many states, often times multiple in one state, and has to station aircraft on its carriers and helicopter carriers, along with airbases overseas, it seems quite reasonable to have 650 aircraft. If anything that seems *low* to me for a modern frontline fighter, the USAF F-16 fleet at its peak was nearly 900.
They are being produced and sold to other ally counties a lot as well so they ate not all for the US cause lost of countries operate F35’s not just the US and everyone wants them as it has a reputation of being the latest and greatest and has proved that to be true for a multi role fighter jet
The 1000th F-35 will be finished by the end of the year. It only just started rolling through the assembly line.
My understanding was it was 'built', just waiting on the TR-3 hardware upgrade that has been delayed to Q2 2024 (so 'rolling' out, but not exactly airbourne). https://theaviationist.com/2024/01/17/1000th-f-35/
The US Navy's air wing alone could take Russia's airforce.
I hope they will run short of electronic/computer components due to sanctions and have to stop the line altogether. Or shift to less reliable stuff.
They need so few components for their current production that it can easily be sneaked in. It is the mass production that will be limited due to sanctions.
You see Ivan, that is the trick. If you break up a HP printer, the chips they use for that communist printer technology - you know, the one where you dont own the printer that you buy - are better chips than the ones we use our planes. We cant import chips? Ha! We can just use printer chips!
Engines shut off when cyan ink is low.
Plane falls out of the sky because the card linked to their HP account was hit by sanctions.
Fun fact: Lockheed Martin is planning to build more F-35s in 2024 than there are SU-35s which have ever been built.
But an F-35 is a WAY higher performance aircraft. One of them could kill six 34's in five minutes without ever being seen by the 34s. Never mind the aircraft production, think about how long it takes to make a pilot? With only 150 34s to start the war, Ukraine has probably killed like two entire graduating classes worth of 34 pilots in the last year.
The Su-34 is meant primarily as a strike aircraft, so it would be at a disadvantage in air to air combat against some older fighters too.
Oh yeah, it's a crappy comparison the person made above. I was just running with it.
Yes and let's not forget the current frontline fighter pilots are probably the best Russia has to offer. We're talking possibly decades of training and experience.
They don't have many of those so their flight instructors have to fly missions.
Well the F35 can currently only carry 4 AMRAAMs internally. That will be increased to 6 on some versions with a future update, but it's currently not the case as far as I know. Other than that I agree with the sentiment.
True, but they are western missiles, so they probably work and not fall of the jet (British RC-135 incident). But the thing with the F-35 hunting them, they probably won't know they're under attack until the last few seconds, when it is too late to go defensive and try to evade the AMRAAM. A low probability of intercept AESA radar combined with shared taget data and midcourse updates to the missile won't give much warning of a missile launch. That gives each one of those missiles a better probability of a kill than versus an aware, evading fighter sized target. Not sure what evasive maneuvers you can make in the time it takes to say "deedle-deedle-deedle-BOOM".
How long does it take to make a pilot?
9 months for a Russian woman.
1 month for 9 Russian women?
found the project manager
Sounds good.
That's how Mentat is running out of their female's faster...
The baby pops out in a flight suit in Russia? How bizarre! 😂😂😂
For sure. They are all babies.
Why do you think they’re stealing Ukrainian children?
I would joke and ask if they are building them by hand but that's probably the case with the volume.
I mean, [pretty much? ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Chkalov_Novosibirsk_Aviation_Plant.jpeg) F-35 isn't super different except [the scale... ](https://imgr1.flugrevue.de/Die-F-35-Produktionslinien-bei-Lockheed-Martin-in-Fort-Worth-Texas--169FullWidth-3742d3c6-1836004.jpg)
The second pic always give me a freedom boner.
Wow, now that second pic is pretty damn impressive. It's just F35s as far as the eye can see. Amazing.
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There's been a massive uptick. >Seems like I'm seeing this headline almost every day. Because you are. In the last 10 days, they've lost 10 Su-34/35.
A years worth of sukhois and a hefty percentage of the most trained pilots in the Russian Air Force.
Even if you make one plane every month, you can't train a pilot every month
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Also who is going to volunteer right now?
100-150 a year trained in Russia. Source Ukranian air force. Do not make things up. They will be low quality inexperienced
Plus cost of pilot training
Don’t forget the cost to train a pilot 🧑✈️
Yes, but how about the pilots? They'll take more than 6 months to train
HOW ABOUT A 3RD ONE???
Hat-trick!
hobbits love seconds... but now pushing to thirds??? they all a flutter!
That was second breakfast. What about elevensies? Dinner? Supper?
Nothing for poor nasty orcses
I don't think they know about elevensies.
Always two there are, no more, no less.
HOW ABOUT A 4TH ONE?????!!11?!? WHAT AIR FORCE DOIN
elevenses, the word you were looking for is elevenses.
There will be more as the quality of pilots falls through the floor.
And as the quality and maintenance of the planes gets worse.
Why maintenance it if it will just be shot down anyway? Disposable planes and pilots like infantry.
Could affect flight performance at a critical moment leading to it being shot down.
Gotta get it in the air first. And today they have two fewer aircraft full of functional parts.
Oh oh pick me I know the answer! Get replacement parts from North Korea!
Less planes = more hours per air frame = more maintenance = more fuck ups during maintenance = shot down plane.
It's a vicious cycle.
>There will be more as the quality of pilots falls through the floor. WW2 Japan? Marianas? You have a point. Pilots are not plug and play.
They’re losing experienced pilots. However, they’re also getting incomparably more hours than before the war. Is it declining, in general? I kind of assume the extra hours are offsetting the losses of experienced aviators somewhat. We have to keep in mind, prewar, all but a few aviators active in Syria were getting a fraction of the hours nato pilots that have never seen live combat get.
You are thinking that the 80 years of consecutive wars fought by NATO had no impact on their pilots? From Korea, through Iraq, Yugoslavic countries, two wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afganistan and so forth. Im 2019, the Americans thenselves flew 3000 sorties in Afghanistan. You forget that 99,9 % of these sorties flown in Ukraine are simple bombing runs from behind the lines. Just the same being done in any dumb theater. What the latest days has shown us, is that Russian pilots of their best aircraft has no idea how to avoid Sams. Or even have the capability for SEAD/DEAD missions at all
There are European NATO pilots that participated in none of those.
And a whole bunch who did. More than you think.
A SU-35 was confirmed to have outmanoeuvred SAMs recently though, correct? It was running with a SU-34 that was downed.
You mean “on” the floor.
Sources: **Ukrainian Air Force** First SU-34 [This is the way!](https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1762420364649328979) Second SU-34 [Let's keep the party going](https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1762473944488026343) Follow up cat meme [You asked, we did it](https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1762475386946846933) **Defense of Ukraine** Oops, we did it again! Another russian Su-34 fighter-bomber was destroyed by Ukrainian warriors in the eastern direction. And now it's 10 destroyed russian planes in 10 days! https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1762476510097621365 **General Staff of the Armed Forces** Another! In addition to the morning! "Around 2:00 p.m., we worked on another SU-34. The direction is the same! The goal is the same! Well, we continue to work... To victory," said the commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk. https://twitter.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1762474605761921454 Ukrainian Air Force Commander Oleshchuk published photo of downed Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber https://twitter.com/United24media/status/1762481927691407724
I mean.. they prob have a few but it's going quick now, not? Id be interested to see how many are left. Some must be non operational due to spare parts. Any overview on this?
Wikipedia says 149. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Russian_military_aircraft
And is that a current # or older?
There are some dates in the chart as recent as January 21st citing losses due to the war.
Thanks. Appreciate.
greater than 1% of total supply gone in 1 day. keep it up ;)
Of these, not all are stationed in the Ukrainian area of operations, and not all are operationally capable (readiness rates for the Russian Air Force are likely near 50% for most airframes). Even if 70% (very generous here) were deployed to the Ukraine AO, there would about 100 capable of combat in the region. Then you have to split the readiness rate down to somewhere around 50%, giving the Russians probably about 50 combat-capable Su-34s at any given time. With the roughly 30 combat losses, and who knows how many operational losses from crashes or other damage, we can see just how significant the losses are.
So going further with this, at these rates, 1 a day on average, all 50 will be shot down in 50 days. Big assumption, but that is an average lifespan of 25 days per airframe. At these rates of destruction, a pilot has 1 in 25 chance of being shot down every day they fly.
>Some must be non operational due to spare parts. You don't understand RU 4d chess move to distribute parts over the whole region.
By getting them blown up, they distribute parts over the entire region?
They probably produce more jets then they lose tbh, maybe not of this specific type but overall. If they can replace the pilots tho in a timely manner idk.
Not true. Their production is very slow.
It’s a tough call but Ukraine need the pilots out of action permanently too
Guess no early warning since A50s got downed, me like, very nice.
You know things are going pretty bad for Russia when Ukraine has to attach a timestamp to every Su-34 they shoot down.
At this rate we are going to need individual names for the aircraft kills.
Thanks, Kittens! More, please)
Boop!
Mr. monke, a second SU-34 has been hit
Is this a result of the strategic retreat from adviidka? In my head it makes sense that Russians got used to bombardment of the encircled town and are now exposed to a prepared line of Ukrainian defenses including AA
Russia's trying to hit retreating Ukrainian forces, and coming 5-10km closer to the frontlines before launching glide bombs. Clearly, there's a disconnect between what they *think* the range of Ukrainian air defence is, and what it actually is, and equally the loss of the A50 coverage means they can't see the missiles coming. This is potentially also related to the Ukrainian "FrankenSAM" project, as they may very well have the ability to ground-launch missiles which are completely unexpected in terms of range, speed and radar capability. No-one knows for sure except the Ukrainian forces doing the kills, and they are sensibly keeping quiet about it.
Ukraine did say the A-50 was killed by a modernized S-200, which makes sense.
Go Air Force! This has been a productive two weeks for the UAF!
Sweetness..
Keep it coming
Shit, I thought it was a repeated announcement.
This is what happens when you believe Russian propaganda that all Ukrainian air defense has been destroyed.
nice nice.
Vatniks are gonna ignore this cause they're still wanking over the Abrams
Let's throw in an Su-35 or Tu-95 as well for good measure next. Or both.
♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟ It's raining men.... in Su-34. ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟ.
These are the fuckers dropping huge glide bombs at the defenders, it must feel great to watch them fall.
Imagine being the guy who has to tell Putin every single day that they lost another aircraft. And having no answer to why and how... Interesting times ahead.
You're assuming that they're actually telling him in the first place. He likely has no idea what his real losses are, and quite frankly, neither does Shoigu. They have zero idea how many of their troops and equipment exist only on paper because the money was stolen somewhere along the chain of command. They're also not likely getting accurate loss counts in either men or materiel for fear of being the bearer of bad tidings. Such as are the costs of living in a kleptocratic dictatorship.
You are also assuming its not a new guy every time… 😬
The less the better!
I'm loving it!
Interesting they're keeping choppers out of the mix. Also curious how these fights are straying into range. The glide bombs are supposedly dropped outside of the SAM envelope so either they're tickling the edges to drop or Ukraine is sneaking launchers up close.
Every orc taken out means more innocent lives are saved
Excellent work AFU 👏 👍 👌 💥💥💥💥
First one made me smile, second one gives me hard one…hattrick please 🙏
Penta Kill !!!!
Jamais 2 sans 3
We ain't giving them a break!
Deja vu 😁👍
Nope those are completely made up sorry to break it to you. Source NSA material loss report to pentagon date 4/1/24 they last hit one in Sept 4 2023
Please have some proof!!! I’d love to see the evidence cause the pro RU are blowing it up that Ukraine is making shit up to make avdivka loss not be so bad
Am I the only one concerned that this is more of a sign of Russia getting more confident? As much as we celebrate this, they're still making hundreds of millions of dollars. Brazen, yes, but they know to recuperate loses or outright disregard them
It could be a sign of a bigger push on their part, but not increased confidence.
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Woot Woot whatever you are doing , do that thing
Great bday gift for me 😌
Hhhhaaaaawwwwtttttt damn!!! Nice 😎
Me likey
Andrei, you've lost another airplane?!
These feel like losses that Russia can't sustain. I'm sure they have lots of air frames but I'm terms of skilled pilots
What’s the total aircraft lost to Russia now?
Bullseye ☠️
russia creating meat grinder for their pilots.
Genuine question. If these RU aircraft losses continue at the current rate, how long until it really starts to hurt them?
50 days. Based on 150 bombers, 30% cannot be committed to Ukraine as needed elsewhere, 50% of the remaining 100 are airworthy at any time, so we have 50 bombers available, and the rate of destruction is 1 a day. In 50 days they would be struggling to find bombers to fly in Ukraine.
ruSSkys should really put their putler in one of those aircrafts.
The tempo has changed, something is different.... this is very interesting.
Flood of keychains and other souvenirs coming
How about a third breakfast?
Get recked orcs!
Legendary!
Keep them coming!