SwedishAdvocate
Active Member
The Russians fly MiG-31s on CAP outside of the range of Ukrainian air defense and aircraft carrying massive missiles designed to shoot down US AWACS and tankers in wartime. They have been using them to shoot down any Ukrainian aircraft that are flying high enough to be spotted on radar.
Source? As I remember it, this was basically debunked a while back in the thread. Tried searching for those posts in the thread now but didn't find them.
The Ukrainians have no airspace that is out of range of these missile carriers. Any Ukrainian aircraft flying CAP would become targets for the MiG-31s and Russian S-400s. The west have no air to air missiles with the comparable range to the missiles carried by the MiG-31s.
UKR has been knocking out the Dictator's S-400 systems since at least September last year:
Russia's S-400 air defense systems are being cut to shreds
Russia's S-400 is broadly comparable to the U.S. Patriot system operating in Ukraine.
www.newsweek.com
Any western jets the Ukrainians get will immediately be targets of an array of Russian weapons. They will need to be very careful to avoid getting shot down. For the most part they will be missile trucks launching NATO ground attack weapons into the Russian lines and no more.
If the S-400s gets knocked out and the MIG-31s are ineffective, I see no reason why UKR won't be able to go after the Dictator's aircraft that are dropping glide bombs as well as the Dictator's cruise missiles using F-16s.
Also: How many operational A-50 Mainstay does the Dictator have these days, and what effect is that going to have going forward?...