The United States has calculated Russian losses after a spider web operating: how many years will be replaced by lost aircraft - Reuters

To spread: According to Western military aviation experts, Russia will have to spend many years on restoring strategic bombers who have failed as a result of the SBU drones. These losses significantly complicate the already detained program of modernization of Russian execution. Reuters writes about it. It is noted that according to the United States during the operation of "spider web" was damaged up to 20 aircraft of the Russian Federation, approximately 10 of which were destroyed.

Russia does not recognize losses, but military bloggers report about ten damaged or destroyed bombers due to the careless command. It is reported that the Tu-95MC and TU-22M3 bombers were injured, which are the main carriers of winged missiles. The production of these aircraft is stopped and difficult to replace them. At the same time, sanctions against Russia complicate access to the necessary details.

It is also noted that Russia is working on updating its bomber park-upgrades Tu-160m and is developing a new Pak da. However, these projects are delayed, and experts believe that Pak will not start producing earlier than 2027. Financial difficulties and technologies through sanctions complicate the rapid implementation of these programs.

According to Aviation expert Justin Bronka, although the blows of Russian bombers will not seriously affect its nuclear forces, which are mostly based on ground and underwater, the losses of Tu-95MS and TU-22m3 will affect the ability to strike massive blows in Ukraine. According to him, Russia has lost more than 10% of airflot, which creates pressure on the already overloaded strategic aviation. We will remind, Ukrainian drones attacked 4 Russian military airfields on June 1.