Resolve isn't the problem, ammunition and manpower is. Those bastards held that town for over 700 days under near constant assault.Always doom and gloom from you. My family there has high hopes.
It would be nice if you could give a small amount of faith in the Ukrainian resolve. Peace .
Resolve isn't the problem, ammunition and manpower is. Those bastards held that town for over 700 days under near constant assault.
Anyhow, the 'gloom and doom' is from the Ukrainian soldier, not @Jaskalas.
Contact your representative, ask them to send more shells to Ukraine. Yesterday.
Always doom and gloom from you. My family there has high hopes.
It would be nice if you could give a small amount of faith in the Ukrainian resolve. Peace .
Those airframes are getting a lot of wear and tear on all of the takeoffs and landings also, and Russia has very limited ability to replace airframes.Sounds like AFU had a productive hit on an airfield in Borisoglebsk last night. Going after that KAB delivery, where Su-30/34s live. Hope they nailed a bunch. Satellite pics aren't great. You can tell things burned south end of the runaway but that's about it.
Russia has mountains of ordinance to use for their glide bombs, but the numbers of airframes and pilots available to them are thankfully much smaller. Even if Ukrainians only bagged or grounded one Sukhoi, that's a win.
Those airframes are getting a lot of wear and tear on all of the takeoffs and landings also, and Russia has very limited ability to replace airframes.
Why The Russian Air Force Fighter Fleet May Be Down 25% Since Ukraine Invasion
The Russian Air Force may be hollowing itself out from the inside faster than Ukraine is destroying it from the outside.simpleflying.com
Well maybe the Russians will shoot a few more down and a few more will simply crash. It is amazing the Russia can waste their limited supply doing flyby around Alaska.Those airframes are getting a lot of wear and tear on all of the takeoffs and landings also, and Russia has very limited ability to replace airframes.
Why The Russian Air Force Fighter Fleet May Be Down 25% Since Ukraine Invasion
The Russian Air Force may be hollowing itself out from the inside faster than Ukraine is destroying it from the outside.simpleflying.com
The war is becoming much more expensive for Russia. From my understanding, this chart tracks the signup bonus offered for contract soldiers to go to Ukraine in a few regions.
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Russians seem to be reluctant in signing up. Perhaps there are less and less dumb Russians left. Apparently in some of the regions, the Army is competing directly for men with the factories that are producing armaments.
Ukraine has purchased an additional 12 Caesar SPGs. They've lost a few during the war but total donations and purchases should bring them to like a 100 gun fleet when all received. Availability might be partially behind more orders since Nexter doubled their production capacity of these to a dozen per month. Much faster than they can get stuff from Rheinmetall.
Ukraine has begun to receive ex-Dutch F-16s, joining their Danish brethren.
Too bad the Dutch pilots and maint. crews couldn't go with those Falcons. Talk about the force multipliers they could'a been for the AFU.
Meanwhile, next door in Kherson....
Russians doing Russian things, and hunting down the civilian population. One drone at a time.
Russian drone drops charge on an excited dog as the civilian owner returns home and opens the car door. Antonivka, Kherson
I'm still hoping we see a foreign pilot unit form up, once Ukraine gets more airframes in country and available for sorties. This is where Poland and Romania could make some basic runways and maintenance facilities on their side of the Ukrainian, let Ukrainian F-16s show up for repairs and maintenance, doubletime. They just have to re-enter Ukrainian air space unarmed.
Stock these bases with a variety of American, Dutch, and Polish pros, people who have been taking care of F-16s for decades. They'd be training Ukrainian ground crews the whole time too.