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Seems like a case of "Stop hitting yourself!"

That's misinformation, they can sail the carrier wherever they want.

Provided the use enough tugboats.

I was seeing from other online spaces that this would be about 30% of Russias strategic bomber fleet and it's accompanying aircraft like their AWACs that got hit.

If that's the case that's a staggeringly bad day for the Russian air force, which means it's a good fucking day.

I just watched a couple of videos on this attack and one thing that stood out is the AWACS - Russia has 5, but only one airworthy one and Ukraine hit that one.

Basically, the Russian AF is blind outside of its bases. It's going to make it much more difficult for Russia to operate outside its borders.

One report I saw says they even hit a base near the northern border with Finland. A Russian sub has possibly been promoted to artificial reef.

Combine this attack with the two bridge collapses and the attack on Vladivostok, and Russia should be worried. Ukraine and their domestic insurgency can hit pretty much anywhere.

They were expecting big slow drones that would take hours flying from Ukraine. Instead they got many small ones that took 18 months to arrive but were invisible until the last minute. A surprise zerg rush, when they were expecting and preparing against ultralisks.

(My analogies are very weak today)

Pretty much all of their air defense seems to be stationed at the front and around their oil facilities.

I'm wondering if the man power drain is affecting them that much.

Most of these cannot be replaced. They were already short on parts beforehand.

Literally irreplaceable as Russia can't build these planes anymore.

The dollar value is easily in the billions.