The Armed Forces were deprived of the Russians of the reserve of fighters for the whole year: they will have to be collected from Chinese components
This was stated in an interview with Focus by a participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the reserve major Alexei Hetman. According to him, each such aircraft costs $ 50 million, but the main difficulties are not the cost of equipment, but the ability to renew or collect a new one. Russia does not have a closed production cycle for important components for electronics, so it was forced to buy the necessary in the West.
At the same time, the Russians decided not to use Chinese components in their planes. "Russia stated that it has more than 100 such fighters, but a big question of how many of them can actually fly," Hetman notes. "This figure is probably ten times smaller. year, but the experience last year demonstrated that only three planes were collected in the Russian Federation.
" The main danger of aviation was that with the help of these aircraft, the invaders were dropped on the positions of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, being over the area of Ukrainian air defense, the veteran said. Their destruction will give Ukrainian soldiers a little rest on the front and reduce the number of victims of shelling among civilians, because such aircraft are not accurate.
Of course, the Russian Federation will continue to produce its fighters, buying everything required according to gray schemes and through the chain of other countries. In addition, the Russian Federation will be forced to switch to Chinese electronics and components, which can be negative about the quality of aircraft, says the reserve major. A complete conversation with Alexei Hetman will soon be released on the Focus YouTube channel.