At least its not as bad as it once was. An idle search through the aviation-safety.net website database for, say, 1956 reveals a loss of RAF transport assets as: 9 Valetta, one each of Marathon, Varsity, Hastings, Sunderland and Shackleton. And 27 lives lost. No mention of fighters, bombers or trainers in this year but other years have more detail. And don't look at the USAF- multiply the above by 3 or 4 times.
It is seriously sobering how far aviation safety has come. This afternoon in the Melbourne "Age" website the headline was how a Virgin B777 came to be slightly below ideal approach altitude- again this was the headline!
From my limited experience of Russian civil equipment they are built like a brick sh*thouse and the main issue is limited overhaul times.