There is a video, with close up, of a loaded 101 cruise missile under the wing, those motherfuckers were loaded up and ready to go in the Zeus lightning operation, putin wanted it to be the biggest air attack in the war just before the “peace negotiations”. That didn’t pan out as expected lol.
The exceptions are the two AWACS who seems to be kept for cannibalism (to keep the two-three flying ones with pieces they can no longer produce).
Were they even operatable flight-ready aircraft?..
There is a video, with close up, of a loaded 101 cruise missile under the wing, those motherfuckers were loaded up and ready to go in the Zeus lightning operation, putin wanted it to be the biggest air attack in the war just before the “peace negotiations”. That didn’t pan out as expected lol.
The exceptions are the two AWACS who seems to be kept for cannibalism (to keep the two-three flying ones with pieces they can no longer produce).
If they weren’t then they wouldn’t be full of fuel. Also, russia has been using these to launch cruise missiles at Ukraine.
Edit: upon further viewing of the footage, some of the bombers even have missiles mounted to hard points on their wings when the drones hit them.
Yes, they got deployed a lot over the last years