Die Ukraine hat russische Su-57 auf einem abgelegenen Luftwaffenstützpunkt angegriffen

ooooooooooo spicy!

That resource exchange ratio is insane

>… calculus shifted on April 25. Shagol airfield is not a frontline base — it sits in the Chelyabinsk region, in the southern Urals, more than 1,700 kilometers from Ukraine’s eastern border. That distance represents a new threshold in Ukraine’s demonstrated long-range strike capability with unmanned systems. Previous Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian airfields have reached deep into Russian territory, but Chelyabinsk — a major industrial city east of the Ural Mountains, closer to Kazakhstan than to Ukraine — represents a reach that few military analysts would have projected for Ukrainian unmanned systems operating from Ukrainian-controlled territory.
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The statement closed with a pointed message: “More to follow.”

Hope they did but waiting for the video to prove it

I may be uneducated in military matters. Something of an armchair general.

But why doesn’t Russia just build hardened concrete enclosures for their aircraft? I understand that there are munitions designed to pierce such structures. But for every meter of concrete you add, the heavier the ordnance has to be in order to penetrate it. The further away from the front line the bunker is, the riskier it is for the delivery vehicle to even get in range and the more advanced the munition have to be if you want it to have any significant range of its own.

A hardened bunker obviously need a little bit of maintenance. But it also protects the aircraft within from the elements outside, so it should reduce the maintenance bill on the aircraft to make up for that. The shelter can also house any aircraft, except maybe bombers if you make it ‚fighter size‘. And it last for half a century or even longer.

Did Russia move the Su-57 1700km away from Ukraine to protect it, in which case, did they really not have a hardened shelter for one of the very few of their most advanced, most expensive and most scarce aircraft. Or was the aircraft at an airbase 1700km away from Ukraine for a different reason, and they just didn’t consider an attack?