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Old 5th Dec 2022, 20:20
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The important thing is the attack itself, as it means Russia now has to honour the threat in future. With no HAS or revetments they’ll have to disperse their entire TU-95/22/160 fleets to FOB outside threat range - severely limiting their ability to launch further ALCM attacks.

​​​​​​​Russian military researcher explains that such a tight arrangement of strategic bombers at airbases is due to a lack of expenditure in this type of weaponry, and only a few airbases are ready to take them.
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