Lol. Wut? They’re creating an elite aviation group, but not with their existing, trained pilots. They’re opening up enlistment to untrained dudes and retired pilots, and they somehow expect them to perform better than their current pilots? None of that makes any sense, so I guess it’s probably entirely accurate.
Sounds like it’s some of those handful of Russian separatist(?) groups that opposes the Putin regime. Not necessarily fighting for Ukraine but being opportunistic for their rebellion. All the reports I’ve seen say there haven’t been any civilian casualties. If it were a Russian false flag operation, there would be dead civilians…probably lots of them.
This is what keeps bugging me. They don’t need to spend months training Ukrainians to get those planes in the air. I guarantee there are dozens of retired F16 pilots around the world that are just itching to get back in the seat for combat missions. There are plenty of foreign volunteers on the ground. Why would it be any different in the sky? And similar to that former US Marine that died a few weeks ago that had gotten out and immediately went to Ukraine, there’s gotta be current pilots who are somewhat bored with us being mostly a peacetime military at the moment.
I think she’s really downplaying the significance of LRASMs. I have a feeling they will have a devastating effect on every Russian warship in the Black Sea.
Sounds like you’re completely agreeing with him. If they can just buy up existing stuff, because it’s been proven to work against Russia, then they don’t have as much incentive to invest in developing brand new tech.
I fucking love this. Now, let’s do another revision where we look at all the money we saved by not having to maintain and decommission all that equipment and count every bit of that as a credit towards what was Congressionally authorized. We may not have actually “spent” hardly anything at all yet
Better than the Migs they’re flying, and they know they aren’t going to get a more advanced fighter from us anytime soon. Plus, if they get the planes, they get a whole lot of missiles to go along with em.
Yikes. Not the best looking tactics there. Also, maybe just a weird camera angle, but right about the midpoint of that video he seems to be firing barely inches over/beside his own guy
On first watch I thought that was the guy he was actually shooting