Jet engines and airframes require constant maintenance. Constant use requires more maintenance.
The more advanced they are, the more stuff breaks down, the more maintenance they require.
That is both time consuming and costly..................
Hey, Snake, BI would be doing a better assessment of aircraft losses if it would graph the losses per month. A better analysis would be derived from that as well as more useful “lessons learned”.
A Russian contingent of 50 planes flew about three times as many sorties in Syria as 180 USAF planes for the same time period and managed to hit seven times as many targets.
And that before you’d look into what targets USAF was hitting (empty huts, camel tents etc).
Russian air force will be just fine.
Another 25 year old girl reporterette
parroting whatever the Brit intel government says.
One of her early hard hitting pieces
This is a load of hooey.
The Russians don’t have any equipment or ammunition left, much less airplanes:
“Russia sent troops into battle armed with little more than shovels against Ukraine’s cluster munitions, report says”
The Russian Air Force is based in Moscow and is reported to have approximately 850,000 personnel and 4,173 aircraft.
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/03/list-of-aircraft-losses-during-2022.html
Russia - 505, of which: destroyed: 352, damaged: 20, captured: 132
Combat Aircraft (80, of which destroyed: 76, damaged: 4)
Strategic Bombers (3, of which destroyed: 1, damaged: 2)
Command And Control Aircraft (2, of which destroyed: 1, damaged: 1)
Transport Aircraft (6, of which destroyed: 5, damaged: 1)
Helicopters (106, of which destroyed: 92, damaged: 12, captured: 2)
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Ukraine - 308, of which: destroyed: 231, damaged: 4, captured: 73
“ONLY 3,850 more aircraft to go!”
LOL SO Pathetic.
Urine intelligence propaganda article.
They have lost 90 aircraft they say.
They have roughly 3600 combat aircraft, half of which are fighters. 39% air helicopters, or 1404. 900 are fighters.
80% or less of those fighters will be flight worthy, potentially as low as 20% based upon other nations using Russian fighters. So that’s a max of 720 fighters and a minimum of 180 for all of Russia.
You have to figure that for Ukraine, that means that Russia may have 40—200 fighters total available in theater.
The United States has about 1000 F-16’s, F-15’s, F/A-18 in storage in Arizona.
Today’s Copium.
Yeah, like we wore out the B-52s and C-130s.
Even those F-15s.
worn out
A lot of leaders in the NATO club are invested heavily in the belief that if enough pressure is applied to Russia then the country, the economy, the military and society will collapse like a JENGA tower. Only one little problem — that strategy has failed; the opposite happened.
Instead of growing weaker and fracturing, Russia has grown stronger and less dependent on the United States and Europe. The economy is purring along. The Russian defense industry has ramped up to unprecedented levels in the modern Russia era. For example, Russia is churning out more than two million 152mm artillery rounds a year. The Russian army is filling recruitment quotas and turning out fully trained soldiers. Russia is producing surprising numbers of hypersonic missiles and drones, which have transformed the battlefield in Russia’s favor.
Compare that with the United States. The U.S. economy is not doing well. The US bankruptcy court, for example, reported a total of 15,724 bankruptcies in the fiscal year that ended 30 June 2023. This is a 23% increase over the prior year. How about the defense industry? Well, they are raking in bucket loads of cash but turning out very little. Ukraine is running low on 155 mm shells and the United States only is making 340,000 a year. That amount is insufficient to meet Ukraine’s daily requirement. Similar story on the recruitment front — the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are falling short of their annual goals. And despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars on weapon systems, the United States still has not developed and deployed a hyper sonic missile.
The United States is facing multiple, self-inflicted disasters. The flood of illegal immigrants is drowning Democrat led cities, which once touted themselves as sanctuary cities for immigrants. New York’s Governor and the Mayor of New York City both are complaining heatedly about being overwhelmed with undocumented migrants. America’s major cities — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco are wracked with murders, theft and muggings.
So yeah, the United States is playing JENGA, but the tower that will topple is not Russia. It is America that is facing catastrophe. I wish I was engaged in hyperbole, but the social fabric of America is being shredded and the partisan divide is a growing, unbridgeable chasm.
Recent remarks by Speaker of Russia’s Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, and echoed byForeign Minister Lavrov and Defense Chief Shoigu, carries an ominous message for the West — Russia is not interested in a negotiated settlement with Ukraine. “Ukraine must surrender on Moscow’s terms or the country will “cease to exist.” These are not isolated, idle, off-the-cuff statements. Russia is sending a very clear message. Will American listen or continue to play Russian JENGA?
Speaking of utter nonsense and cia propaganda, your favorite cia propaganda outlet, NYT, offers this tidbit for us today:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-map-front-line.html
If course I cannot open the link because it is behind the NYT paywall. But all you pro-Biden-war contractors have links to all this NYT propaganda, so there you go.
Other sources say: The Times finds that “Less territory changed hands in August than in any other month of the war” and that “While Ukraine made small gains in the south, Russia took slightly more land overall, mostly in the northeast.” And in total, the report says, “When both sides’ gains are added up, Russia now controls nearly 200 square miles more territory in Ukraine compared with the start of the year.”
Greg Greenwald says on Twitter / X:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1707407039448731684
“Amazing and sad chart from NYT on how virtually nothing has changed from 9 months of tragically deadly and expensive fighting in Ukraine throughout 2023”
At what cost, dear Snakey, at what cost? This stupid and deadly Biden proxy war is costing focus on much more important things, like what to do with the 8 MILLION illegal aliens who have swarmed over this southern border of the USA.
That illegal immigration poses an actual danger to the USA and its citizens every single day, as opposed to this CIA proxy war you are so fond of promoting for Biden here on FR.