An overview of the recent losses by the Russian air force and overall situation for their readiness. Kind of a follow-up on some questions I asked on other posts here.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    These new plane loss rates indicates to me the ukraine has some new weapon. I suspect they may finally be fielding some f16s.

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        10 months ago

        It could be a large rock. It works for crazy people on freeway overpasses and it can’t be fooled by chaff or flares. A rock is a rock and it will do rock things. Like nothing. You wouldn’t want nothing to happen to your flying jet do you?

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        10 months ago

        U saw har far behind the lines the latest big fuck off command plane thing was. Seems awfully long distance to be a missile.

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            10 months ago

            Yes, I’m just surprised they still have those. They are really in a bad shape right now and these few downed airplanes don’t mean much.

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              10 months ago

              these few downed airplanes don’t mean much

              The article is talking about a possible death spiral of the Russian air force. I think that means something.

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                10 months ago

                A lot of hopium. Same stuff we heard since the start of the war. First it was food, then equipment, then shells, troops, missiles,… And looking at the the Russian army today it’s fed, well equipped, as many shells as they need, new drones, missiles in production, planes in production. Not to mention new motivation as they see the west faltering in their resolve to help Ukraine. Russia is in war economy, unfortunately it’s not running out of anything anytime soon. They are not that stupid and will adapt if the losses become unmanageable.

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                  10 months ago

                  I guess if you just ignore the fact that Ukraine has downed 11 (+?) planes in the past 11 days, maybe you could call that sentiment hopium.

                  I do agree, things aren’t looking great with the US (not the whole West, by the way) delaying aid. But what was supposedly the second greatest military in the world is stuck in a quagmire with a neighboring country a fraction of its size. They are making only minor progress at enormous cost.

                  It’s a waiting game. Neither of us have the facts about what is actually happening with the Russian military or economy. Saying that, I don’t think you can dismiss the recent losses by Russia as insignificant.

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                    10 months ago

                    I’m not ignoring these legit military successes, I’m saying that we can’t expect them to continue until Russia is out of planes.

                    The fact that Ukraine has stood up to Russia for so long means nothing if they lose in the end. And right now Ukraine is losing. It’s losing lives and land and its only losing because we in the west didnt and still don’t fulfill our promises and our obligations and our leaders pussy foot around what weapons to send.

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                  10 months ago

                  And looking at the the Russian army today it’s fed, well equipped,

                  Lol, no, it is not

                  Too many deserters showing up severely malnourished for that to be the case

                  Too many documented cases of unusable or plain fake equipment, like plastic helmets, or artillery rounds missing propellant, rusted rifles, etc

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          10 months ago

          Missle tech has come really far. for example, thaad has a flight ceiling of 93 miles, and the tomahawk land attack missle has a range of 1550 miles.