Boxing Day Engels Air Base Strike Analysis

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Supposedly, this Ukraine struck Engels Air Base in Russia with another drone. Russian Telegram claims that 5 Tu-95 and bombers were heavily damaged, 2 were lightly damaged and the strike resulted in several ground crew casualties.

I am not sure if this is true and satellite coverage has been hampered by clouds. However, if it is true than Russia needs to do one of 3 things:
#1. Step of their air defense game.
#2. Rebase their forces out of range of Ukrainian drones.

Both of these choices have associated costs. Rebasing will protect these assets, but it takes a lot of effort to move squadrons of aircraft -especially maintenance heavy bombers.

Protecting these bases with air defense assets will shrink the pool of air defense assets available at the borders of Ukraine.

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References and Rights:
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1607346936301993985

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/av-orbat.htm

https://ourairports.com/airports/RU-8602/weather.html

https://news.yahoo.com/satellite-images-russian-airbase-engels-144156843.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/world/europe/russia-drone-attack-ukraine.html

https://www.chemguard.com/fire-suppression/catalog/foam-concentrates/aqueous-film-forming-foam-afff/c3b-lt29.aspx

https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ru/engels

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