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Ukraine absolutely has an airforce. According to a recent CNN article, "In early March, about two weeks into the war, the defense official said Ukraine has 56 f
by atlasunshrugged 4y ago
Ukraine absolutely has an airforce. According to a recent CNN article, "In early March, about two weeks into the war, the defense official said Ukraine has 56 fighter aircraft, which composed about 80% of its fixed-wing fighters"
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/politics/ukraine-aircraft-spare-parts/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/politics/ukraine-aircraft-spa...
- 01100011 4y agoThe UkAF literally bombed Snake Island the other day. They definitely have an air force.
- melling 4y agoYes, I guess I wasn’t explicit enough and now we’re having a silly discussion about a few dozen Ukrainian planes. The entire point was… anyway… I’ll be more explicit next time so we don’t run into the weeds and waste everyone’s time and get right to the issue
- 01100011 4y agoIt's the internet. So many people just looking to argue...
- jollybean 4y agoThey are not flying a lot of missions. It was down to a few sorties a day. Neither Air Force is spending a lot of time in hotly contested territory. I suggest UKR AF is really just patrolling within the territory they control as a deterrent to Russian AF. But neither spending a lot of time directly in each other's turf. A bit sad UKR doesn't have better AA because Russia is flying a lot more sorties on their lines than they should be able to get away with. They are a bit too fast for MANPADs.
- greedo 4y agoThe RuAF is flying between 200-300 sorties a day, just not all over Ukraine where they'd get waxed by S300s. They're mostly flying in the Donbas, pretty much at the limits of the best SAMs Ukraine fields.