• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, but compared to the capital cost of the aircraft, is it really that expensive?

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      4 days ago

      As far as I know Russia was moving planes around to maybe prepare a bigger operation. Since they can’t build hangars for all planes everywhere they parked them outside. And planes are made to withstand the elements so it’s not so bad for them to stand outside for a while. If the conditions were too bad for long time storage you could just fly the plane somewhere else aswell.