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How the Russian Air Force Failed in Ukraine

Geopolitics Decanted by Silverado

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Russian Tanker Capacity

Russia's flying about 140 or 40s a day, so that gives you an idea of how much of the activity is that for now. And they only have about two hours, right, worth of fuel? Yeah,. So if that's a working average on the upper end, then that works out to about 100 or 40sA day just under to run those eight caps with pair on each all day. The Russians are able to stay high on their own sides of the lines as opposed to the Ukrainians, who download jet engines and massively less fuel efficient. They can probably extend cap time on station to maybe two hours on vol time. It has gone down over time, but it was about

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