hello mr putin can i have all the broken planes for a project im working on

its for broken airplane museum i promise i am not doing the metal gear solid thing

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How they still had this many left after all that time?

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before the war they 37 of them, but also Poland and Slovakia gave a lot of them to Ukraine, the thing about the mig-29 is that they were made right before the USSR collapsed which made them outdated real quick

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Yeah but i meant how they even had this many left with Russia ability to bomb everywhere. Were they hiding them in civilian infrastructucture and using roads as runways or something? And Mig 29 isn’t even that outdated, it’s roughly equivalent to F-15 or whatever EU countries had, if properly modernised.

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And Mig 29 isn’t even that outdated, it’s roughly equivalent to F-15 or whatever EU countries had, if properly modernised.

yeah, that’s why it’s outdated, it’s not properly modernised

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They were probably spread out and hidden. Don’t forget the Mig-29 can operate on roads or dirt runways. It was designed as a frontline rapid response fighter.

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6 points

Keeping them in reserve and not using them in every engagement.

Plus planes are fairly easy to get. Pilots are a whole other beast. No pilots, and it doesn’t matter how many planes you have. This is essentially the same problem Germany and Japan ran into during WW2. They had a bunch of shiny new planes throughout the war but simply no one trained enough to fly them.

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I thought Russia was on its last legs and had been completely annihilated by superior Ukrainian forces.

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14 points

Turns out the reports of Russia’s annihilation were greatly exaggerated.

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6 points

“Somehow Russia returned”

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5 points

People who never bothered learning any history are very shocked right now.

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3 points

I promise that Russia will lose the war tomorrow.

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15 points

I heard they started using a new awacs or something, can see enemies further away, possibly even quarterbacking R-37s with terminal guidance.

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just new tactics with old AWACS equivalent.

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Yeah, that’s been the speculation for why they’re taking out so many jets all of a sudden.

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5 points

I guess the Ghost of Kyiv defected or something.

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