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Ukraine has no large supersonic bombers the size of the TU-95/TU-160/TU-223m. They do have a very small fleet of SU-24, but those are tactical bombers, not stra

by greedo 1y ago

Ukraine has no large supersonic bombers the size of the TU-95/TU-160/TU-223m. They do have a very small fleet of SU-24, but those are tactical bombers, not strategic bombers.

at0mic22 1y ago
Ukraine actually has inherited 19 TU-160s from USSR. 8 of which were transfered to Russia as a payment for natural gas, and 11 were disassembled.
- geoka9 1y ago
  > and 11 were disassembled In exchange for security promises (Budapest Memorandum).
  - at0mic22 1y ago
    In exchange for $500M from Nunn-Lugar programme
    - geoka9 1y ago
      That was funds for the scrapping operations.
      - at0mic22 1y ago
        Right, the US payed to scrape the military equipment.
- greedo 1y ago
  As I wrote, Ukraine has no large bombers in this class...