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Old 27th Feb 2023, 22:35
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No, that seems to be the entire fleet.

Just as NATO nations retired most of their aircraft as incredibly expensive to operate - so did Russia. And with the graft and incompetence I doubt the ire fleet ended up in a better star than that of the same number of RAF E-3Ds….

https://www.military-today.com/aircraft/a50.htm

A total of 40-42 A-50 series aircraft were built, including modernized and export variants. By 2011 Russian Air Force operated 20 of these aircraft.

Some sources report that in 2022 Russian operated only 9 A-50 aircraft, including 3 upgraded A-50M and 6 A-50U aircraft.

In 2023 one Russian A-50U aircraft was destroyed by saboteurs, while operating in Belarus. This reduced the number of operational aircraft to 8.“…
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