Jigger waves at comrade Roar while mouthing the word soon.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Jigger waves at comrade Roar while mouthing the word soon.
People think it's just like Ace Combat; and fighter jets -and the support apparatus to enable their use- are as common as the Vauxhall Corsa.
Soldato
I thought the biggest advantage to the F16s was that they were natively compatible launch platforms for all NATO air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, and had a much longer range radar than the Migs they're currently using. So they could remain further behind the front line, searching for potential targets and launch their missiles, without needing to have everything all pre-programmed before the flight.
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Some people think Russia will win.
Plenty of them and plenty capable. The ideal jet for Ukraine would probably be the SAAB E.
It literally carries 2 bombs and costs millions to maintain. This thread is like a mix of people discussing the war like it's Hearts of Iron 4 combined with looking at the USAF inventory like it's a shopping list without really any fundamental understanding of military equipment
Oof, the new, new world order isn’t getting off to a good start.
It literally can fly anywhere undetected and drop precision weapons down chimneys.
Vladolf could get a nice little Christmas present.
But seriously, the US have about 40 serviceable F117s causing them headaches.
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What mission do you envisage Ukraine needing a Night Hawk for? It's a light bomber best used against poorly defended military infrastructure. Ukraine needs close air support and an air superiority fighter, basically an F-16
Citation needed. /pedant
Soldato
Normally used against high value targets like that strike in Crimea the other week. Airfields as well would be a priority target for the F117, so basically any mission you can't do with your existing weapon platforms.
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Scalp and himars enter the chat and proceed to decimate said air defence systems that were designed to kill them.
Soldato
The sarcasm is strong in this one. (Unless you meant aircraft).
Indeed, A-10s are great at dropping bombs on militants with no air force or air defences, and at causing friendly fire incidents, but they're really not good at the combat Ukraine is currently engaged in. There isn't really any point sending them unless they start running low on Su-25s, but then they can't really operate their Su-25s properly at the moment either as they don't have the required air support (or Russia's "if they die they die" approach to it's assets).
This next paragraph may annoy people who had a model of one as a kid, but the A-10 is not a good aircraft. Built for a war that never happened and overhyped by a reputation and capabilities that it never earned nor demonstrated, it has repeatedly failed to live up to the hype every time it's been deployed, the only reason it's still in service while more capable aircraft like the F-111 have retired is because the people making those decisions have more knowledge of the hype and not it's actual combat performance.
This, IIRC they flew the same route at the same time each day because they were confident nothing could threaten them, so the guy basically knew if he kept his radars turned off then they wouldn't be destroyed by anti radiation missiles, and he could just switch them on when he knew the Nighthawks were due to approach and try to get an aquisition, which he did.
Especially the Russian Air Force
Caporegime
Russian media is starting to realise Putin's red lines aren't worth the chalk they're drawn with.
But it goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ?
Fair enough. They can fly undetected anywhere that’s using Russian made air defence.
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