Must be true, Ukrainians aren't known to lie. Probably crashed just like those 5 IL-76s filled with VDV in the first week of the war.
Looks like Russia covering up Ukraine shot it down
holy cope
Money means nothing when you have people's families for ransom.
300 million
What.
$300m
Where does that number come from? Even a Tu-160M only costs half that.
that's a very cool plane
The Tu-22M went out of production in 1993, so it's probably not so cheap or easy to obtain spare parts these days.
AI says that's wrong
Russia's defense budget for 2025 is projected at $145 billion. A $300 million expenditure would account for approximately 0.21% of this total budget.
Source for Tu-160M cost
Under a contract signed in 2018, 10 of the modernised Tu-160M nuclear bombers are meant to be delivered to the Russian Air Force up to 2027 at a cost of 15 billion roubles ($163 million) each.
reuters.com