There was active production as recently as 10 years ago. You can’t say that about B-52s.
That sounds about right. I figured sometime in the 90’s. The one flying are probably the newest. And even so there may well have been canned parts on them depending on what maintenance was like.
They may have rolled out ten years ago, but hey may also have spent most of that time sitting on the tarmac in the weather, receiving little or no maintenance.
One the big problems the Russian Airforce had after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, was that it had no money to pay pilots or buy fuel to fly. The bulk of their airforce was all but grounded for a long time.
As for the Buff, the havn’t made new ones for many years, but they have completely remanufactured the old ones from the ground up to the point they might as well be new planes.