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lol they are gonna burn through the service lives of their air fleet even harder now
Yup.. and with the ukrainians chipping away at the air defense.. the hunting grounds of the falcons at some point will overlap with these planes too.
Also they produce something like 30 war planes a year and production seems to be falling. Combined with crashes from the planes being old, this is a total disaster for the Russians.
production seems to be falling
Absolutely, I just read that Russia has reduced the target production of jet engines by a third for next 2 years, due to "difficulties".
I'm guessing those difficulties will only get worse, so even the reduced targets won't be met.
Now India pivoting away from Russian defense manufacturers makes the advantage of scale even less. This is how Empires die.