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  according to wiki only ten exists, there about 500 of all variants but only ten of model K.
  Would be a shame of the got shoot down.
context: 10 planes in existence, all senior pilots either dead or captured. Plane needs to be piloted ALL THE TIME with compensation for releasing the payload. I wonder who will be put in the cockpit. >
  
  yes, and to train new pilots takes long time, I believe US navy pilot training is about two years(?) >
  
  Not to mention you must have a certain service to put up with in the first place. They were pulling generals from wreckage in Ukraine (even though rank of general is kind of easy to get in Russian army). 
  You can't put young conscript behind the stick in one of the ten jets you have and can't afford to use much less get shot down. >
  
  Launched from Belarus?
  Does that make Belarus a legitimate military target?
  Does a few targeted strikes against the russian military installations there make putin pull them back from the border to a safer distance?
  That would make things easier for Ukraine in the north. Especially if the reports we get about the Belarusian army being weak and largely ineffective are true. >
  
  Yes, but no. 
  The Belarusian military doesn't support Russia's invasion, if Ukraine attacked Belarus then the (Belarusian) military would probably directly help Russia. 
  So it's a tightrope situation. >
  
  I get that, but, under the rules of war, if russia invades from Belarus aren't the russian military installations in Belarus legitimate targets?
  Perhaps that would make Belarus contemplate closing its territory to russia. >
  
  They play by their own rules and the world kind of just has to humor them. If we played by their rules NATO troops in Ukrainian uniforms with fresh passports would be flowing into Ukraine by plane and through Poland with their own tanks and weapons and artillery 🥸 >
  
  That would certainly cause an interesting reaction from the arse end of the world and its glorious leader lol.