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<blockquote data-quote="Amiga500" data-source="post: 1182434" data-attributes="member: 56767"><p>Dunno if its wishful thinking or not, but just throwing this out there.</p><p></p><p>Seen a few people speculate about the number of flight hours being accrued in the airframes of the Russian Air Force.</p><p></p><p>We all know how <em>fantastic</em> their maintenance schedules appear to be, and its also fair to say that expertly trained Ivan and élite Igor are probably not the smoothest on their machinery - especially with the Ukrainian IADS hounding their asses.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, bottom line is the RuAF may have a bit of bother fielding aircraft by late summer at the sortie rate they have been. Which may also coincide with the Ukrainians getting F-16s. RuAF "happy time", such as it is, may be drawing to a close.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And sure while I'm here. Anyone any statistics on Russian (refined) oil output? Story is the Ukrainians have put a sizeable dent in Russia's ability to refine oil... and repairs for the refineries require sanctioned Western components.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amiga500, post: 1182434, member: 56767"] Dunno if its wishful thinking or not, but just throwing this out there. Seen a few people speculate about the number of flight hours being accrued in the airframes of the Russian Air Force. We all know how [I]fantastic[/I] their maintenance schedules appear to be, and its also fair to say that expertly trained Ivan and élite Igor are probably not the smoothest on their machinery - especially with the Ukrainian IADS hounding their asses. Anyway, bottom line is the RuAF may have a bit of bother fielding aircraft by late summer at the sortie rate they have been. Which may also coincide with the Ukrainians getting F-16s. RuAF "happy time", such as it is, may be drawing to a close. And sure while I'm here. Anyone any statistics on Russian (refined) oil output? Story is the Ukrainians have put a sizeable dent in Russia's ability to refine oil... and repairs for the refineries require sanctioned Western components. [/QUOTE]
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