shavenferret 15 hours ago
Russia's defense industry is unable to meet its Tu series defense contracts and the Tupalov company has been sued/fined by mother Russia for several billion rubles for failure to meet its contracts.
Strategic bombers have tge highest threshold of quality bc they have the best pilots and Russia doesn't want a nuke being dropped accidentally onto a Russian city if the plane failed in say a training run. I realize that the atomic bombs have to be armed, but they can still leak radiation if the drop and hit the ground hard. So, these drone attacks and sanctions of critical parts that these bumfvck Russians can't make for themselves are killing the industry for strategic bombers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/4YHkAjFxFY
