bjn wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 10:34 pmThere were several dozen aircraft parked there this morning. That’s a big chunk of their operational airframes gone. They are meant to have quite a lot more (low hundreds), but how many of those are actually flyable and have not been stripped for copper like their tanks?
The destroyed Su-24 looks like one from the row on the bottom left. Three Su-24s there, and three rather more expensive Su-30 variants.
There's also four more Su-30s in revetments, four more Su-24s in revetments and two more in the open in the north of the picture, and down to the east, there's three more Su-30s.
The revetments may have protected the craft from blast, but it depends on the scale of the blast, and they'd have been little protection from thrown debris.
So about $195 million in the immediate vicinity of the ruined Sukhoi, $365 million in the open, and $665 million in total.