And yet no Russian aircraft can actually overfly and be on call over Ukrainian airspace to perform basic interdiction functions like attacking convoys, blowing bridges and highway overpasses; or performing on-call frontline air support.
You know, the things the USAF does.
Btw, the UkAF is still flying and Ukraine is getting aifreight, S35’s notwithstanding. Probably because even the F35’s dont dare overfly Ukrainian airspace.
If the Russian AF could do all that air superiority stuff, among other things that would have ended significant rail and highway traffic in Ukraine, and they they would have won the war by now.
The USAF only bombs third world countries with limited or absent air defence. They have never gone up against a peer or near peer nation. Russia flies over Ukraine but they can do most of what they need to do with missiles, drones and guided arty. This is an attrition war-it’s the slow grind that wins it.