They're going to find out the reason why the Russian air force isn't all over the place.
This isn't Serbia and Kosovo all over again.
“This isn’t Serbia and Kosovo all over again.”
My big concern is who is going to buy our fighters after having them run up against S400s and S500s?
The Russian air force isn't all over the place because it can't fly: lots of airframes are very close to the end of their service life. Lack of spare parts, trained crews and pilots. Plus Ukrainian air defense is good enough that they have to come in low and slow, which shortens range, leaves them vulnerable to MANPADs, and severely reduces the number of bases available for shorter range sorties, some of which are now within missile or drone range. They are trying to compensate with Russian versions of JDAMs, but the bombs dropped in Berdyansk by their own planes suggest that those aren't working too well.
All of you have been saying for over a year that Russia is "holding back." When are you going to realize there's no there there?