All language subtitles for 23-08-2023tydryts

Footage from the Russian airfield of
Soltsy with the Tu-22M3 in flames again

demonstrated a striking thing, Ukraine
has changed the pattern of the war.

Russia is losing strategic bombers,
fighting a state that has almost no

aviation and no long-range aviation
and long-range missiles at all.

We see roughly the same thing
in the battle for the Black Sea.

When Ukraine, having no navy of its own,
sinks Russian ships one after another.

The Tu-22M3 is part of Russia's nuclear triad,
and this is already a very high level strike.

If we speak the language of Russian
propaganda, all red and brown lines of

all possible shades have been crossed,
it's time to choose a new color.

As a result of the attacks on the Soltsy
airfields, two Tu-22M3 strategic bombers were

completely destroyed, and two more were damaged.
Total of 4 units were taken out of service.

This aircraft was developed in the USSR
for the Kh-22 Storm missile, which may

have a nuclear warhead for massive strikes on
aircraft carrier groups of the United States.

Tu-22M3 is a really serious
machine, but there is a nuance.

They were produced at the Kazan
Aircraft Plant and even now they

have invested 400 million dollars there,
because they think they can revive,

but they can not. On the conveyor belt
of the plant there are hulls of these

airplanes from the times of the Soviet
Union, and they could not revive it all.

According to open sources we know that they
built these airplanes in the range of 60,

but less than 20 are working. The last one
came off the assembly line in the early

90s. And every such destroyed machine cannot be
replaced, they can't build it, it's impossible.

They will go by the method of cannibalism,
from some machines they will remove units and

mechanisms, put them on other machines, but
each lifting of such a machine into the air

is a load and once again a load. Consequently,
sooner or later this resource will be exhausted,

and Russia will be left without
this element of the nuclear triad.

Strikes on airfields, which have become
quite routine, have two important results.

First: The number of carriers is reduced, of
which Russia does not have very many left,

and each one that disappears reduces
its ability to fire airborne missiles

at Ukrainian territory in the long run.
They can't make new bombers anymore.

Second: They are forced to relocate the surviving
machines far away, literally to hell on the horns.

This significantly increases the range
of their flight to the launch sites,

they have to spend precious irreplaceable
motor resource and increases the time for

preparation of Ukrainian air defense to repel
a strike and for civilians to take shelter.

As for what was used to destroy it
- a drone launched from Ukraine or

unknown saboteurs from Russia - both are good.

If the first - then there is no air defense as
a systemic phenomenon (however, we have already

discussed this), if the second - there is no
counterintelligence, which should fight saboteurs.

However, both are not mutually exclusive things.

The most important conclusion is that the
process has begun, it will increase. And

the scaling will be left to those people
who should do it, and they will do it.

By the way, August 24th is Ukraine's independence
day. Earlier, the head of intelligence Budanov

announced interesting events. I certainly
do not expect anything, as psychological

operations are an integral element of war, but
I really hope for spectacular fireworks....