EXPLAINER: Why does Ukraine need foreign warplanes?

AP ^ | March 6, 2022 | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and MATTHEW LEE

[proust]

Sure could have used some foreign warplanes to fight off Lincoln’s aggression.

[delchiante]

You bring up a topic that probably needs to be explained..

Why does Ukraine energy company need foreigners like Hunter Biden on their board??

[dforest]

Well, it probably is but that doesn’t put and end to repetitious propaganda posted over and over.

[kjam22]

Should have been in the air

[kjam22]

Ukraine should be buying ICBM’s from NOKO and shooting them at Moscow….

[StAnDeliver]

Diversion. If the western Ukraine is being flooded with Reapers that have been painted over with Ukrainian badging...There is literally nothing we could not channel through Poland (or even Moldova/Romania) -- that is the game the alphabets are being paid for.

'9 Russian aircraft' shot down yesterday? I have seen 2 confirmed kills on video, and no pursuing aircraft.

Even if it is half that number, the aces were majority unmanned aircraft. And if it was fully 9, then the latest and greatest Reapers are in the field...

[dila813]

Yep, but they were Russian jets ... constant maintenance.

[escapefromboston]

War profiteers

[jdsteel]

That’s one opinion.

I personally think the more Russian equipment and soldiers Ukraine destroy the better off everyone other than Putin becomes.

[NorseViking]

Ukraine used to have 250-300 operational planes 10 days ago, of them 50 remained operational after the first day of the Russian operation. They are still losing 3 to 9 every day. The more they fly the more they lose, mostly without achieving any results. What is the point of sending more? Not to mention that Poland has become a legitimate target without Article 5 cover.
If Russia can hit 250 aircraft on the ground in one day, what makes one think it can’t obliterate a smaller Polish force in half a day?

[piasa]

That is not logical. No one but Putin made Russia invade. Any response to the invasion is just that, a response.

[piasa]

Why did the Russian government need a Burmuda shell company to finance antifracking groups in the US?

[RummyChick]

who is flying them? Are we sending top of the line over there

[piasa]

Ukraine wasn’t a legitimate target, so Russia obviously doesn’t give a crap whether Poland is or not, nor should anyone assume it matters at this point.

[rxsid]

"Same reason the Russians sent their state of the art aircraft to North Korea and North Vietnam. Using Russian provided gear, North Vietnam shot down 10,000 US aircraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War"

What a load of crap. North Vietnam did NOT "shot down 10,000 US aircraft." What's your agenda?

From that same link:

"In total, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft, helicopters and UAVs (3,744 planes,[3] 5,607 helicopters[2] and 578 UAVs[1] )."

"Lost," as in, total losses from combat, from accidents, etc. Also includes UAV's. One example: Navy - SH-2/UH-2 Sea Sprite—12 lost, 0 in combat. Those 12 "lost" are part of the "total" and yet zero of them where "shot down" by the North Vietnamese and their Russian "gear."

"United States Air Force

All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 2,197 of the losses were fixed-wing, and the remainder rotary-wing. The USAF sustained approximately 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties during the conflict, which compared favorably with a 2.0 rate in Korea and a 9.7 figure during World War II.[9][10]: 268 "

At 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties, the USAF kicked commie Azz in Vietnam.

"United States Navy

Twenty-one aircraft carriers conducted 86 war cruises and operated 9,178 total days [edit: or 25 years per their numbers] on the line in the Gulf of Tonkin. 532 aircraft were lost in combat and 329 more to operational causes, resulting in the deaths of 401 naval aviators, with 64 airmen reported missing and 179 taken prisoner of war."

So, in over 25 years, the Navy lost 532 aircraft (of all kinds) to combat, or roughly 1 aircraft every 2 & 1/2 weeks. The USN also kicked commie Azz in Vietnam.

"United States Marine Corps

U.S. Marine Corps aircraft lost in combat included 193 fixed-wing and 270 rotary-wing aircraft."

Considering the Marines' mission and operating environment in Vietnam, loosing 463 total aircraft throughout the entire war, I'd say is also kicking commie Azz.

As far as actual Air to Air combat...the U.S. "gear" made fools of the Russian "gear"

Even the lowest 3.8 to 1 ratio is a significant enought advantage.

[SaxxonWoods]

“Why does Ukraine need foreign warplanes?”

Biplanes aren’t cutting it?

[Arcadian Empire]

I presume this means that Poland will SELL Soviet-era fighters to Ukraine and BUY American F-16s.

[Long Jon No Silver]

And Uncle Sam still lost

[delchiante]

Here’s a better one..
Why did Russia(ns) compensate Bill and Hill?

Maybe because the US is the sewer..
And the opposite of an innocent bystander in war, or proxy wars, or geopolitics

Because of the scum at the top of this evil Banana Republic

[Hot Tabasco]

Has the comedian put a pink pussy hat on yet?

He was waiting for you to put your own Putin pussy hat on..........