There will be more accidents of Russian aircrafts: expert comments crash of Russian Tu-22M3 bomber

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On August 15, 2024, a Russian long-range supersonic missile carrier-bomber Tu-22M3 crashed in the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation. And there will be more such cases, says Ukrainian aviation expert, deputy director of the company producing electronic warfare equipment Anatoly Khrapchinsky.

"Tu-22M3 plane crashed due to a certain technical malfunction. This will happen more often in the future, because active use of planes 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 of 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 the planes begin to have certain problems with engines, their ignition - all of this consistently destroys the plane. At the same time, this problem is not new, but Russia cannot solve it.

"Because of all this, we will still see plane crashes and air disasters, or prerequisites for this with emergency landings," 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 a year," he explained.

The aviation expert added that Ukraine destroys many more aircraft. However, these are still threats, so more strikes should be made directly at Russian aviation production facilities.

He noted that Russia was actively developing aircraft factories, building new workshops to increase production capabilities. 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.

Recall, a Russian Tu-22M3 missile carrier bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation. The occupiers often use these aircraft for strikes against Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the plane crash. The preliminary cause of the crash is a technical malfunction. Russian authorities also claim that all four pilots of the bomber, who managed to eject, survived.