At the same time, The Military Balance 2023 claims that the full-scale invasion of the Russians had 85 MiG-31BM interceptors, 12 MiG-31K and 32 MiG-31bm, which was 129 aircraft. But now this figure has declined significantly as a result of the strokes of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
However, if you take the figure at the level of "500 units", it turns out that over the last 30 years the existing MiG-31 park at the disposal of the Russian Federation has declined in a margin, suggesting in the publication. In addition, planes of this type are no longer manufactured. According to the material, the Russians themselves reduced the operational resource of aircraft, which belong to the "special forces of VO".
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