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For those who asks why so few planes. The Russia's military industry has its particular features, a lot of corporations - weapon producers - aspire to lobby their arms systems into every large project where it's just possible to integrate it. Exactly because of this reason the Kirov class cruisers became so monstrous and huge, though they began from standard tonnage 10-12 thousand. Project had been changed several times and finally it increased almost up to 25k, because all influential Soviet industrial groups wished to put their products into the cruiser. I suppose Masorin cares to protect the project from excess influences - for the time being. But I suppose the project will increase inevitably up to 45-50 aircrafts at least, the discussions on the theme will appear of course. Nevertheless the price of modern aircrafts is too high, when one piece costs more than 40 million dollars, and next generation will be much more expensive, this is the natural limit for number of planes.
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