There will be more accidents: expert comments on the crash of the Russian Tu-22M3 bomber
Date: 2024-08-16 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WAR
On August 15, 2024, in the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation, the Russian long-range supersonic missile carrier-bomber Tu-22M3 crashed. And there will be more such cases, says aviation expert, deputy director of the company for the production of electronic warfare equipment Anatoly Khrapchinsky.
"Today, there was a crash of the Tu-22M3 aircraft due to a certain technical malfunction. This will happen more often in the future, because the active operation of aircraft requires high-quality maintenance. And Russia does not have time to do it," he noted on the air of the telethon.
The expert added that the weak point of the Tu-22M3 bombers, like all Russian strategic aviation, is the engines themselves.
"Of course, there are problems with the auxiliary power unit, and with certain other elements. But the most painful spot for any Russian aviation is the engines. Because the most powerful engine manufacturer in Soviet times was Motor Sich, and the most powerful developer was the Ivchenko-Progress Design Bureau. All this remained in Ukraine," Khrapchinsky emphasized.
The expert said that now Russia can neither build nor properly repair engines, which are, for example, on strategic aviation. This leads to the fact that aircraft begin to have certain problems with engines, their ignition - all consistently destroys the aircraft. At the same time, this problem is not new, but Russia cannot solve it.
"Due to all this, we will still see the fall of aircraft and air crashes, or prerequisites for this with an emergency landing," he believes.
Khrapchinsky noted that Russia cannot produce strategic aircraft at all, but only repairs and modernizes the old aircraft fleet.
"If we talk about tactical aviation, it should be noted that the Russians can actually still build, and they can produce about 6 Sukhoi aircraft per year," he explained.
The aviation expert added that Ukraine destroys many more aircraft. However, these are still threats, so it is necessary to strike more directly at Russian aviation production facilities.
He noted that Russia was actively developing aircraft factories, building new workshops to increase production capacity. At the same time, this was not the construction of some underground hangars, because the Russians were not at all prepared for the fact that there would be strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation, and since 2003 they have been actively scaling up the production of offensive weapons.
