Still bad, but thought your number high
Take this for what you will
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.
Surprised by the low rotary wing aircraft since hueys were not armored but hey who knew, by these numbers Russia is closing in to rotary wing number which took 10 years in Vietnam and certainly were not the unstoppable flying tank ma-52, hummm
The rotary wing US lost close to 10,000, I don’t even count them into the previous number. 3,200 are fixed wing between USAF and USN, mostly Phantom jets.
On what Russia is closing I don’t get, you don’t make any point.
You still failed to address my point regarding modern SAMs. Who said that your plans are going to work? Petraeus and Hodges are on record saying how much a sweeping success Azov “counter-offensive” is going to be. You know, “Western-trained, western-equipped, highly motivated, using proper tactics” against “ poorly armed, poorly led”. The operation was fully planned in Pentagon and performed on scale the US military never dared to do itself since Korea. Would you explain me why thunder runs didn’t work?