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.
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.
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.