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Biggest Strike of the War Hits Major Russian Air Bases. Here’s What It Means for Russia’s Air Power (united24media.com)
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The full extent of the damage is still being assessed, but preliminary estimates suggest Russia may have lost at least $150 million worth of irreplaceable aircraft in a single day.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The strike took out fully one third of Russia’s strategic bomber force.

No, that is not a typo.

[–] AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's even worse than that.

They have roughly 120 *total bombers. Meaning a chunk of these are not air worthy air frames, and are just kept on for parts.

This very well could have crippled 40+ percent of all of Russias strategic bombers.