Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Quartz said:
The ground crew need to know everything about the plane from which oils and hydraulic fluids to use and when to use them to all the electric circuits to the specific torques required for each nut and much, much more.
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No they don't. Groundcrew are specialists in a particular trade, Avionics, Weapons, Engines, Hydraulics, etc
 
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America promises 2 F-35 some time before 2040. 5 minutes later: dozens of unspecified jets fly over the Polish border. Can we skip the middle part already, bored now :p
 
bris said:
Russia seem to be very low on planes now too, a war like this should have dozens if not hundreds of planes flying all over the place.

USA for instance get air superiority very quickly and saturate the skies with the things, Russia failed badly by not getting air superiority at the start of the invasion.
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In the eight years between the invasion of Crimea/Donbas and last years full blown invasion Ukraine spent quite a bit of time/effort in reactivating and upgrading hundreds of air defence units specifically to deny Russia air superiority in the event Putin rolled the dice. Lack of effective Russian intel on their whereabouts in the opening days of the war meant they weren't able to take out enough to gain safety and that combined with the superior skills of the Ukrainian air force meant they never had a hope of gaining superiority.

The USA as you say did much better in Iraq (twice) but while Iraq had the fourth largest army on the planet their anti-air and air force weren't a patch on Ukraine's (not to say the USA couldn't have invaded Ukraine successfully of course).
 
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