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2022-04-02 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Why Ukraine is exceeding expectations against Russia's air force

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Posted by Woodrow 2022-04-02 00:47|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Excellent vid Woodrow.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-02 11:26|| 2022-04-02 11:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Command and Control philosophy. The Russians have largely been by the book 'mother-my-I' for a long time. Destroying the C2 node of the Ukrainians on the first day, they fell back upon improvise, adapt, overcome.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-04-02 13:11|| 2022-04-02 13:11|| Front Page Top

#3 The Ukie pilot doing the selfie cockpit interview appears to have a mustache and beard. Does that work with an oxygen mask? Or does a good seal not matter as much as it would with an Nuke-Bio-Chem mask?

Posted by SteveS 2022-04-02 13:57|| 2022-04-02 13:57|| Front Page Top

#4 A while back I posted a Russian blog post that described the Russian Air Force's travails in combat operations in 2008.

Going from memory, it said that the Russians lost eight combat aircraft during the Georgian War of 2008.

Five or six of them were from friendly fire.

From where I sit, it's the Russian Air Force which has improved

Posted by badanov 2022-04-02 14:04|| 2022-04-02 14:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Although... if I had 200 billion cash in my personal account at 600 billion cash reserves for my military.... I'd have decent tires on my trucks and a lot of STOL aircraft in my air force.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-02 15:18|| 2022-04-02 15:18|| Front Page Top

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