A Disaster For Putin

The RF is losing the irreplaceable.

Today's Ukrainian drone attack on the Olenya airfield in the Murmansk region and Belaya airfield in the Irkutsk region was a historic event: two ultra-rare Tu-160 strategic bombers were damaged. As military expert Alexander Kovalenko emphasizes in Telegram, these planes are beyond repair, and Russia is physically incapable of building replacements for them. The blow was dealt not only to the airfield, but also to the illusion that Russia has an aviation superpower.

The Russian Federation is losing the irreplaceable

According to Kovalenko, the strikes on the Belaya airfield destroyed not just equipment - they caused irreparable damage to the Russian aircraft fleet. The Tu-160s are unique strategic missile carriers from the Soviet era, which are not produced in modern Russia. The damaged machines will not just not fly in the coming years - they will most likely never take to the air again.

The expert emphasizes: contrary to propaganda, Russia is not producing any of its strategic aircraft from scratch. Not the Tu-95MS, not the Tu-22M3, much less the Tu-160. Everything that has been passed off as "new" aircraft is a retrofitting of old Soviet designs.

"Russia has not produced a single brand-new Tu-22M3 or Tu-160," Kovalenko explains. - Everything that is destroyed today cannot be compensated for by any production. These losses are forever."

The Fall of Russia

In the expert's opinion, the operation revealed the essence of today's Russia: "A technologically backward, barbaric state, not an empire, not a superpower. Just a dark kleptocracy, which has in its hands only the wreckage of a dead empire - the USSR."

Despite all the pathos of Kremlin rhetoric, the Russian Federation is not capable of building the future - it is only wasting the Soviet past, which is now burning on its own bases.

Why Russia is not able to rebuild the Tu-160 from scratch?

At first glance, it may seem that since the technology is known, the bombers can be reassembled. But the reality is more complicated: Soviet production was a chain encompassing dozens of design bureaus, factories, research institutes and unique specialists, many of whom have long since disappeared. Key competencies, materials, production lines, and even alloys used in critical nodes have been lost. Today's Russia has neither personnel, nor equipment, nor industrial culture capable of reviving complex projects from the late Soviet era.

Services that missed everything

The experts place special emphasis on the failure of the Russian security services: dozens of drones made it to deep Siberia and beyond the Arctic Circle, to strategic facilities, without the slightest resistance: "For 25 years they have been increasing budgets, engaged in repression and surveillance. And in doing so, they missed the delivery of drones to Irkutsk."

And ahead - new losses

But this is not the end. The A-50 UAV airplanes, of which Russia has even fewer, are the next candidates for destruction. Their loss could turn into a catastrophe for the Russian Air Force comparable to today's.

Ukraine has dealt a blow that Russia can neither compensate for nor forget. The loss of even two Tu-160s is not just a minus on paper. It is the symbolic death of the Russian Federation's air power, fragile and hopelessly outdated. And the fact that the attack went through thousands of kilometers without resistance calls into question the very existence of an effective army and state in Russia.

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