Russian Air Force Has Lost 10 Percent of Fleet in Ukraine
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Russian Air Force Has Lost 10 Percent of Fleet in Ukraine
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The original was posted on /r/ukrainianconflict by /u/Level_Ruin_9729 on 2024-04-15 06:25:11.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/russian-air-force-has-only-lost-10-percent-of-fleet-in-ukraine-us-officials-say/Open linkView original on lemm.ee162
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Send more Patriots. Gotta pump those numbers up.
10% is really really poor... Ukraine needs more and better AA, not just hand me downs
The problem is Russian jets have the range to just fire from within their own airspace.
Surely with all the NATO funding there is a solution to this problem, certainly against weaker countries US and coalitions have managed to take down enemy planes. So either there is a solution for this or we are pretty fucked in Europe too
Ukraine likely have the capability to shoot them down its just shooting down planes deep inside russian airspace is quite a large escalation.
That's not nearly enough.
Is this 10% of their modern Air Force or as a whole? I'm waiting for them to bring out turbo props.
On a log scale we're halfway there
There's a thing called organizational death spiral. You don't have to down 100% of aircraft to cripple the Russian Air Force.
The less planes they have, the more they have to use the same aircraft, the more airframe stress that accumulates on those airframes, the fewer aircraft they have to rotate in during repairs and maintenance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/29/shooting-down-11-russian-jets-in-11-days-ukraine-nudges-the-russian-air-force-closer-to-an-organizational-death-spiral/
Also:
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/10/russias-air-force-eating-into-aircraft-lifespans-with-no-easy-solution/
Inject this straight into my veins
They're hanging their motto to "We're doing better than the Russian Navy!"