Ukraine cannot win here. Russia has the world's most devious and cruel combat engineers laying in miles and miles of entrenched defence fortifications. Backed by Russia's world leading artillery battalions, there is no way Ukraine can push back Russia without battlefield nukes.

Russia is already laying in massive quantities of entrenched long range radar, antiaircraft batteries and missiles. US cannot acquire air power over that region any longer. If you have played a realistic war flightsim like Falcon 5.0, you will know air power cannot prevail against Russia's AA tech.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

lmao

[–] CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The F-35 has been operating over Syria for years against those supposedly infallible Russian AA defenses. So far the only thing that's been able to hit them is a bird.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Tankies are gonna tankie.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The f35 has stealth tech specifically designed to go against Russian AA, and the Syrians had antiquated systems.

The f16 does not, and the Russians have lots of the latest generation AA because they're the ones who make it.

[–] CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The F16 will be vulnerable but not completely useless, as implied by the other post.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I agree, it will be very briefly useful.