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Russian impression of US air power
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Posted on 11/15/2022 6:39:15 AM PST by ganeemead

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1 posted on 11/15/2022 6:39:15 AM PST by ganeemead
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To: ganeemead

This goes near hand and hand with that vid given the findings Johnson found concerning US air readiness....

‘IF YOU THINK THE UNITED STATES IS READY FOR A CONVENTIONAL WAR WITH RUSSIA OR CHINA, THINK AGAIN’
https://sonar21.com/if-you-think-the-united-states-is-ready-for-a-conventional-war-with-russia-or-china-think-again/


2 posted on 11/15/2022 6:41:59 AM PST by cranked
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To: ganeemead
This coming from the country that can't even achieve air superiority in Ukraine.

But hey, if that's how they feel, I suppose they wouldn't mind if we trained Ukrainian pilots on some A-10's, etc., and handed some of the to the Ukrainian Air Force.

3 posted on 11/15/2022 6:49:01 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: ganeemead

The US Airforce is short 2000 pilots and is STILL kicking out the unclothed.

Recruiting is in the toilet.

You can’t fix this level of stupid.


4 posted on 11/15/2022 6:50:16 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“This coming from the country that can’t even achieve air superiority in Ukraine.”

Lulz. Please continue to think such...cause we know one thing is for sure, Ukraine has no air superiority, anywhere.


5 posted on 11/15/2022 6:50:45 AM PST by cranked
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6 posted on 11/15/2022 6:51:36 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: 2banana
You can’t fix this level of stupid.

They could, but they won't.

7 posted on 11/15/2022 6:52:05 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: 2banana

Good! Perhaps they can get some from the Army.


8 posted on 11/15/2022 6:52:29 AM PST by sport
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To: cranked
‘IF YOU THINK THE UNITED STATES IS READY FOR A CONVENTIONAL WAR WITH RUSSIA OR CHINA, THINK AGAIN’

Russia's military is third-world, at best, and the war in Ukraine has more than proven that. I'm sure Russian propaganda has contributed to the illusion of their strength, but our own military industrial complex has also been complicit, exaggerating their abilities to secure substantial funding to fight a non-existent adversary.

Back in the late 80s and early 90s we used to play complicated simulation games, and hardware such as the M1 Abrams outmatched Soviet T-72s or T-80s by a 5-to-1 margin (at least 5 Soviet tanks to take out one Abrams). The Gulf War was the proving grounds that showed those sims were accurate, and their modern equipment is no better, maybe worse.

Air power sims were slightly more favorable to the Soviets, but still no match for top-of-the-line US aircraft.

China may be another matter altogether, but I have my doubts. Again, propaganda-driven strength to project/maintain super-power status.

9 posted on 11/15/2022 6:54:00 AM PST by AnglePark
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To: ganeemead

If Russia can’t beat Ukraine, how do you think it can beat the U.S.?


10 posted on 11/15/2022 6:55:00 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: AnglePark

“Russia’s military is third-world...”

You either use serious drugs or have serious Russiophobia issues and should seek help.

I know facts get in the way of US bravado, been there done that myself, but one day, peeps need to be awakened from that stupor.

‘US military rated as ‘weak,’ may not be able to win one war, as tensions grow with China, Russia’
https://nypost.com/2022/10/18/us-military-rated-as-weak-may-not-be-able-to-win-one-war-as-tensions-grow-with-china-russia/

‘Navy Approaching ‘Weak’ Rating in New U.S. Military Strength Survey’
https://news.usni.org/2021/10/21/navy-approaching-weak-rating-in-new-u-s-military-strength-survey

‘Yes, the U.S. Military Is Weak’
https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/yes-the-us-military-weak

‘Ukraine War Shows the US Military Isn’t Ready for War With China’
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/ukraine-war-shows-the-us-military-isnt-ready-for-war-with-china/

‘Weapon System Sustainment:
Aircraft Mission Capable Goals Were Generally Not Met and Sustainment Costs Varied by Aircraft’
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106217

‘If you think the US is ready for a conventional war with Russia or China, think again’
https://sonar21.com/if-you-think-the-united-states-is-ready-for-a-conventional-war-with-russia-or-china-think-again/


11 posted on 11/15/2022 6:56:59 AM PST by cranked
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To: cranked

your pre-prepared-KGB-propaganda is fooling nobody

Russia’s military sucks ass, the whole World can see it


12 posted on 11/15/2022 7:03:33 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: ganeemead

We can’t trust the Russkies to respect our New Woke military.

You know darn well they will refuse to use preferred pronouns.....


13 posted on 11/15/2022 7:04:52 AM PST by Iron Munro (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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Wasn’t it you that was just the other day bemoaning people for calling others names and stuff?

LMAOGTFO, resident hypocrite of Canuckistan.

Do your good citizen part and donate to Nazi Freeland’s war bond drive for Ukraine, kthx.


14 posted on 11/15/2022 7:05:34 AM PST by cranked
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To: cranked
Ukraine has no air superiority, anywhere.

Ukraine doesn't need air superiority, it just needs to deny Russia air superiority. Which it has done.

15 posted on 11/15/2022 7:16:15 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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‘Which it has done.’

Which they are NOT doing, at all.

Russians are flying upwards of 60+ sorties a day over Ukraine in support of Russian offensive probes and pushes.

And what air craft Ukraine has is being destroyed as fast as it appears. Same goes for its air defense platforms in the battlefield.

From 2 days ago:
‘Ukrainian Su-24 Gets Shot Down Near Bakhmut - Engines Flaming Out As Pilots Try To Ditch’
https://odysee.com/@Overthrown:6/video_2022-11-13_02-14-25:d

And the link above guy’s account has a number of recent videos of Ukrainian air defense being taken out by Russian LANCETS like butter.


16 posted on 11/15/2022 7:20:22 AM PST by cranked
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To: AnglePark

Let’s just hope the Air force doesn’t name any major significant campaign “Operation Red Wave”. Good to be humble and strive as if you are behind.


17 posted on 11/15/2022 7:37:26 AM PST by allendale
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To: cranked; AnglePark; All
The Ukie military was basically defeated somewhere around June. What's been going on since then has been a war between Russia and a hodge-podge nato force of mercs from all over including isis and alquaida, some nato troops, and remnant ukies and that hodgepodge force is all but defeated now.

I once heard Angelo Dundee describe Roberto Duran as a cold, calculating kind of a guy who you'd never see flustered or off of his basic game and the same holds true for Vladimir Putin. If Putin was anything less than totally certain that his military could take any combination of US/nato forces, the conflict in Malorossiya would not be happening.

Putin went into the thing believing that at some point the hohos would come to their senses and the problems would be resolved via negotiation. He has now been totally disabused of that sort of thinking and has taken the gloves off.

18 posted on 11/15/2022 7:37:59 AM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: allendale

LOL! I would say maybe folks have learned their lesson, but I probably know better than to be that hopeful.


19 posted on 11/15/2022 7:39:04 AM PST by AnglePark
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To: ganeemead

The money dries up, along with military hardware like tanks, planes, artillery, etc. and the Ukraine House of Cards collapses. Done. Game over. Zelenskyyidiot and his cohort better have plans for easy escape all I got to say...


20 posted on 11/15/2022 7:39:48 AM PST by cranked
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