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It is not as if they needed thousands of pieces, and MoD is extremely careful with foreign sourcing for any defence components, much more for critical programs like the PAK-FA. I find it questionable to assume that they did not source 100 or 200 chips before starting the SMO, if those were critical parts that would previsibly fall under sanctions. Are those chips Elbrus? If so, production is being set up in Russia too...Russia needs to cover the Northern Sea Route, plus substantially increase the density of their air forces throughout the territory, all but the Western/Southern MDs are missing a lot of equipment. Actual numbers therefore can be misleading IMHO to assess potential buys, and they are already substantially more than the sum of those numbers you indicate. In the long run 3th, 4th and 4+ gens will be substituted, that makes more than 1000 planes between different types of fighters / interceptors (ca. 700) and bombers (ca. 250), excluding the Su-25. So 250 Su-57, 500 LTS and 300-400 (or even more) Okhotnik would look about ok to me, but we will see. In any case I think in the future VKS numbers will rather increase than be reduced.
It is not as if they needed thousands of pieces, and MoD is extremely careful with foreign sourcing for any defence components, much more for critical programs like the PAK-FA. I find it questionable to assume that they did not source 100 or 200 chips before starting the SMO, if those were critical parts that would previsibly fall under sanctions. Are those chips Elbrus? If so, production is being set up in Russia too...
Russia needs to cover the Northern Sea Route, plus substantially increase the density of their air forces throughout the territory, all but the Western/Southern MDs are missing a lot of equipment. Actual numbers therefore can be misleading IMHO to assess potential buys, and they are already substantially more than the sum of those numbers you indicate. In the long run 3th, 4th and 4+ gens will be substituted, that makes more than 1000 planes between different types of fighters / interceptors (ca. 700) and bombers (ca. 250), excluding the Su-25. So 250 Su-57, 500 LTS and 300-400 (or even more) Okhotnik would look about ok to me, but we will see. In any case I think in the future VKS numbers will rather increase than be reduced.
