Russia’s use of aviation in Ukraine is being compared to ‘operation desert storm’, and other US military operations in Iraq and the Middle East.
The matter of fact is that the US has never went up against anything as advanced as the modifications of S300 (or even a base S300) fielded in Ukraine.
They went into Iraq against systems that were falling apart and operated by untrained troops with capabilities nowhere near an S300 system —yet, the Iraqis still managed to get lucky shots on them.
The S300 and Buk systems fielded by Ukraine are advanced systems. They’re extremely difficult to overcome — and this is especially the case with operators who know what they’re doing — which obviously applies to Ukraine. These are domestic systems historically, the expertise in operating them remains unchanged from the Soviet military.
The only time the United States went up against cutting edge Russian Air Defence systems was in Vietnam.
They lost 2,000+ aircraft & .. lost the war.
In our opinion, the aviation component in Ukraine is carried out in a localized & supportive manner. Russian Armed Forces strategy in Ukraine is precision strikes and artillery, not FAB’s and wiping cities off the map like in Syria.
The population density simply does not allow for this in Ukraine without racking up hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties.
Additionally, the aviation component of the Russian military allows for stand off strikes from long distances, often from the airspace of Belarus due to a magnitude of missiles with very long range.
The Russian Air Force is not really limited in what they’re doing at the moment. They’d only become limited in case of change of strategy — which would be large scale destructive airstrikes. This has not been on the agenda thus far.
(And hopefully does not become a realistic strategic point for the sake of civilians)
We said it in the past and we’ll say it again, the world has not seen a war like this yet. The technological aspect of this war, the fortified positions and the conditions of this war are not remotely comparable to any conflicts NATO or anyone else has ever faced.
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