Posted on 03/22/2022 4:06:43 AM PDT by McGruff
Each night, Ukrainian pilots like Andriy loiter in an undisclosed aircraft hanger, waiting, waiting, until the tension is broken with a shouted, one-word command: “Air!”
Andriy hustles into his Su-27 supersonic jet and hastily taxis toward the runway, getting airborne as quickly as possible. He takes off so fast that he doesn’t yet know his mission for the night, though the big picture is always the same — to bring the fight to a Russian Air Force that is vastly superior in numbers but has so far failed to win control of the skies above Ukraine.
“I don’t do any checks,” said Andriy, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot who as a condition of granting an interview was not permitted to give his surname or rank. “I just take off.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That’s because this geezer has two kids in high school!
That can’t be real? The guy looks like he belongs sipping lattes in the NYT news room.
Whenever my putative conservatives start cheerleading for Putin, the BS flag goes on the field. It is Putin who has ramped up his offensive technologies, it is Putin who has joined up with our other main enemy the Chinese, and it is Putin who threw 100,000 troops and armor and artillery and air attacks into Ukraine.
That’s the Ghost of Kiev. From the video game.
Don’t see what the issue is - the checks are done, the aircraft is ready for a hot scramble. The point is to get into the air as fast as possible, the GC will tell you what’s up when you need to know.
My old man was with the USAF in Germany in the early ‘50s, and used to see the guys sitting in their F-86’s near the end of the runway. Saw more than a few times where a magazine would come flying out of the cockpit as the engine fired up and off they went.
My dissertation adviser was a RAF pilot in the Battle of Britain. He emigrated to the US after the war. Great guy and innovative scientist. R.I.P. "Robbie".
F the NYT!
They don’t have to fight the Russian aircraft. They just need to lure them over the ground based Stinger missles or towards the UFOs.
He’s destroying the bio labs in Ukraine. Those organisms should not exist.
“Because geezers never wake up at 5am. Btw, I notice you’re awake.”
We never sleep... 4 or 5 one hour naps per day ensures that.
With no radar? The Helen Keller protocol. 🙄
NYT? seriously?
Hey, I resent, er, resemble that. :-)
You think the Ukrainian government led by a Jewish president is nazi??!?!
“I don’t do any checks,” said Andriy, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot .....”
Those Russians must build a helluva plane.
I think the Globalists are Fascists and that Ukraine is an important tool for them (money laundering, etc.) The propaganda that supports Ukraine is really propping up Klaus Schwab and George Soros. I don’t think Judaism has anything to do with anything here.
Thank retired [Covid meme guitar-player] Director Collins and his underling Fauci for that.
Now, the New York Times is an accurate source of information...
I wonder how many of the few American airmen who were able to launch did checks when they took off against the Japanese in Pearl Harbor.
Everyone knows that high school kids are at peak mental efficiency at 6am. The government always knows best.
And I was just being contrary... I didn’t suspect you were in Moscow.
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