But despite the public’s fascinating with videos of Russian helicopters or missiles being struck down, Stringer focused more on the underperformance of Russia’s ISR aircraft, indicating that problems with prosecuting targets is one of the most significant aspects of the invasion thus far.
“The transformation in US and NATO air power over the last five decades has no equivalent in the VKS [Russia’s air force], nor do the Russians have anything like the ISR led strike capabilities of NATO Air Forces, nor the targeting processes to exploit them,” he said.
He added that multi-domain integration of NATO assets will “continue to underpin how we fight,” and suggested intelligence sharing by alliance members in support of Ukraine had reached an “unprecedented” level.
‘Within an hour of Putin’s forces crossing the [Ukrainian] border a planned deployment of multiple combat air patrols were sent to protect and assure NATO’s Eastern Flank,” said Stringer.
Russia's attempt to secure air dominance in Ukraine has been wildly unsuccessful with troubles prosecuting ISR supported strikes forcing plans off track.
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