It might still be a developmental aircraft. While it’s not uncommon for the Russian air force to deploy test planes to combat zones in order to collect data in a real-world context, it’s a huge setback to a development effort to lose a rare and expensive test plane during combat trials.
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Lately, nearly a third of those sorties have ended with the drone getting shot down by Ukrainian forces. “In the past, Russia was net gaining drones per month and now I think they are net losing,” Perpetua noted last month.
Slowly whittling away at Russia’s capabilities
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