The US has 10 active aircraft carriers in service.
Considering Russia’s sole CSG only carries 20 fixed-wing fighters I never really considered the deployment a game changer.
All part of putin’s “Make Russia Pretend to be Great Again” plan
I wonder how loud of a wail would be heard from liberals if somebody offered the suggestion of allowing Russian aircraft to use a US carrier, to let Russia use an older but operational carrier.
Russia’s military is still a shadow of what it was during the Soviet Era (and it was vastly overrated even then). Although they did go through a period of modernization in the mid to late 2000’s when Russia was awash in oil revenue, they are still way too reliant on obsolete Soviet era equipment
Highway to the Danger Zone!
Russia (like China) has little in the way of a naval tradition. An Office Corp and Senior Enlisted without experience does not spell success...
Ok couple things:
1) Hadn’t heard that they had 2 planes down only the one.
2) It could very well be that they have bombers positioned in syria proper and that they are only flying protective CAP from the carrier for those when they are airborne.
3) I don’t care who is shooting the video, those in charge aren’t going to allow anything out that they don’t want to allow out regarding operations and op-tempo. What they are showing they want to show - what they aren’t they don’t want to show.
4) Nothing they stated precludes the ability of the other aircraft to support forces on the ground through other means including target id, strafing, communications, reconnaissance, etc
They must be investigating the arresting cable incident. They had better be thorough about that.