Possible, but seems high to me. I'm not sure if those planes were really destroyed or just damaged. My knee-jerk estimate would be somewhere in the hundreds of millions. Still a very successful operation by Ukraine though.
The explosions seem to have blown one wing off of the planes. That's not destroyed - the main fuselage is there, and the other wing is attached - but it's in need of a major rebuild. I suspect that it's a factory-only level of rebuild, but I don't actually know.
It's at least months to years before they're operation again, or years to decades until the factory can make that many new ones.
AnimalMuppet|9 months ago
It's at least months to years before they're operation again, or years to decades until the factory can make that many new ones.
NunoSempere|9 months ago
> months to years before they're operation again
Good point!