My thoughts as well: go through the crazy "look ma, no brakes!" emergency routine for landing and use the remaining pads for taxiing. Not an aircraft engineer,

My thoughts as well: go through the crazy "look ma, no brakes!" emergency routine for landing and use the remaining pads for taxiing. Not an aircraft engineer, but my guess would be that the pad wear for one regular landing would be good for a decade or two of what's consumed during taxiing. (and when the inevitable accident happens, the victims' suffering will at the same time be acclaimed as heroic sacrifice and a called out as a direct attack by "evil nato, how dare they not give us what we need for business as usual". Chances are less people will die for this propaganda stunt than in the apartment bombings)