RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 2, 2025 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2025 at 4:53 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 2, 2025 at 8:14 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Those 40 Bombers would amount to abut 30% of Russia's strategic bomber fleet, although it seems "only" 7 are visually confirmed to be totally written off.
It should be noted that there was clearly a deliberate attempt to target the area of the wing between Engine 2 and Engine 3 of the target Tu-95s, at least -- where there's quite a bit of fuel and which is shown to be burning by the copious black clouds in the videos floating around. What that means is that the wing-spars (and perhaps the fuselage longerons etc) on those planes are likely ruined by the heat and though not visible to the outside, many those planes will be total losses too.