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Russian Air Force is much less capable than its NATO counterpart:
Russia’s Involvement In Syria Proves That It's Far Behind The Western World
Russia has made a lot of noise about the modern weapons it has used during combat in Syria and how effective these new weapons are. Fresh Su-34 attack jets scream through the skies, while the latest in small arms test their mettle. But the reality is most of what Russia has used is not as shiny...
jalopnik.com
Russian Air Force have suffered losses over Ukraine:
The Russian Air Force Just Had A Terrible Day Over Ukraine
Russia looks to have lost multiple combat jets, helicopters, and a drone in just the past day or so.
www.thedrive.com
Russian aircraft losses in Ukraine ‘unsustainable for more than a fortnight’
Verified images show 11 planes, 11 helicopters and two drones have been shot down since invasion began, including nine at the weekend
www.telegraph.co.uk
List of aircraft losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War - Wikipedia
This might be the reason why Russian Air Force is not very active in Ukraine airspace.
Russian forces are using cruise missiles and ballistic missiles as much safer alternatives to strike at high value targets inside Ukraine:
The U.S. military now assesses that the Kremlin has committed almost 100 percent of the forces it had arrayed around Ukraine in recent months and that it has lost around five percent of that combat capacity since the invasion began. Russian forces have now launched more than 670 ballistic and cruise missiles against Ukrainian targets, according to the Pentagon and appears to be stepping up those and other kinds of strikes.
Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Turns Two Weeks Old
Here's our latest update on what is happening in the conflict in Ukraine, which has now entered its 14th day.
www.thedrive.com
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Russian C grade forces are equipped with latest Russian AK-12 rifles, sophisticated main battle tanks including T-90 variants, different types of helicopter gunships, and heavy artillery pieces including TOS-1A MLRS ???
Captured Russian AK-12 Rifles Appear To Be The Trophy Guns Of Choice For Ukrainians
Captured Russian AK-12 assault rifles are becoming practical trophies for Ukrainian officials and troops.
www.thedrive.com
Ukraine war: Drone footage shows Russian tank column retreat after artillery ambush
The footage, taken from a Ukrainian drone, shows the Russian tank column thrown into disarray by the attack as artillery shells and rockets explode around them.
New Helicopter Units Appear To Be Joining Russian Forces Massing On Ukraine’s Borders
The apparent forward deployment of additional rotorcraft boosts Russian air assault assets on Ukraine’s doorstep.
www.thedrive.com
WRONG, my friend.
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I am well-aware of Russian military movements inside Ukraine. I can check mapping sources myself.
My thread for reference:
The Russia - Ukraine War Repository Thread with Fact-checking considerations
GENERAL COVERAGE OF THE RUSSIA - UKRAINE WAR is in following threads: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russia-ukraine-war-news-and-developments.706984/ Status: CLOSED https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russia-ukraine-war-news-and-developments-part-2.746450/ Status: OPEN - Both threads contain...
defence.pk
Russian forces have advances to show on the ground in Ukraine (huge number of troops involved) but this war has proved very costly to Russia on all counts as well. Russia has also earned the trophy of becoming the most heavily sanctioned country in the world due to this war effort.
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How cute.
Russian equipment losses in Ukraine in a span of 13 days:
Tanks = 164
Armored Vehicles = 352
Logistics Vehicles = 303
Mobile A2/AD systems = 37
Engineering vehicles = 36
Towed Artillery = 26
Self-propelled Artillery = 25
MLRS = 19
Aircraft = 12
Helicopters = 11
Communication Stations = 8
UAV = 3
Logistics Trains = 2
Jamming Systems = 1
NOTE: Actual count is higher than the aforementioned figures but contents are being processed for verification.
No big deal, right?
From one of the links shared above:
Russia's invasion of Ukraine kicked off two weeks ago, although it feels like much longer ago. The Kremlin's advances on the ground appear to have largely stalled out in the face of Ukrainian resistance and major supply chain problems. Its forces have now shifted their focus to a brutal campaign of encircling and bombarding major cities. At the same time, the United States and other countries continue to levy new sanctions on Russia and work to isolate it politically on the international stage while pouring thousands of weapons into the country to support Ukraine's defense.
Russians have also lost thousands of troops in Ukraine by now:
More Russian troops were killed in Ukraine in 2 weeks than U.S. troops in entire Iraq War, U.S. estimates
More Russian troops were killed in Ukraine in 2 weeks than U.S. troops in entire Iraq War, U.S. estimates
Fuming Putin fires generals over invasion losses, says Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has gone on a tear, firing as many as eight generals over Moscow’s military losses in the invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s defense chief claims.
nypost.com
Vitaly Gerasimov: second Russian general killed, Ukraine defence ministry claims
Ukrainian intelligence says major general in Russia’s 41st army died outside Kharkiv along with other senior officers
All of the above is no issue, right?
Wasn't Russia supposed to steamroll Ukraine and NATO by extension?
Vladimir Putin have grossly miscalculated his options in Ukraine; Russian prestige is on the line now. RAND fooled him perhaps.
This war will haunt Russians in the years to come. My sympathies are with Russian commoners.
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This operation is turning into a whole circus,I would laugh if Ukrainians weren't suffering because of the Russian invasion.
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Huge losses for Russia today
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Massive losses for Russia today
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With each 24 hrs passed, this argument (highlighted) become increasingly less tenable. Am going to look at this from an airpower perspective.
Ukraine is a sophisticated country. More than Iraq and definitely more than Afghanistan. Why does this matter? Because the more sophisticated a country, the greater its wealth are concentrated in the cities, and Russia is slowly destroying the cities via first encirclement then artillery to reduce the cities to rubble. Essentially, destroying the country's wealth.
The longer the absence of Russian airpower over Ukraine per the relative power levels chart above, the greater the intensity and destruction of ground Ukraine if Russia is going to commit their 1st tier combat forces LATER as you posited.
Airpower requires the best of everything a country has just to create a basic air force. It is only when an air force meet against another air force in combat is when that sophistication manifest in a binary win or lose outcome, and because airpower operate at higher speed of operations than other powers, airpower have a greater affect on time than other powers. In simpler language, the sooner you take control of an airspace, the more time you give to ground forces, especially if they are directly below the contested airspace. Because airpower operate at speed greater than other forces, when an air force attack a ground force, time is compressed for the enemy ground force. Each attack is faster than the ground forces can response. The only respite the ground force have is when the attacker reorient himself to attack again. But if there are multiple air attackers, the ground forces will have no respite at all. Ask the Iraqi Army for this experience.
In the air, there is no negotiated settlement possible. Either you win or you lose, and if you lose, you die. Am not saying the pilot die, even though he often does, but that you lose a valuable asset: the pilot-aircraft asset. Without one, the other is useless. An aircraft is not like a rifle where anyone can learn how to become lethal in one day. An aircraft require complex and sophisticated training methodologies and time in order for that pilot-aircraft combination to become valuable, so instead of one day it is more like one yr.
Currently, air forces all over the world are seeing 'Air parity' in Ukraine when it should be 'Air supremacy' in Russia's favor. Each air asset that Russia lose, whether fixed or rotary wing, in this slow march that you are saying for Russia in order to conserve forces, it will be tougher for Russia to subjugate Ukraine and greater destruction on Ukrainian wealth which equals to destroying Ukraine. What am saying is that to give your argument validity, that Russia is not seeking to destroy Ukraine but only capitulation thru ground pressure, Russian airpower should have been at the 'Air superiority - Air denial' on the first day and escalated to 'Air supremacy - Air incapability' on the second day.
Does this mean Russia cannot win? Russia will win even at this pace. But the longer this 'Air parity - Air parity' status exists, Ukraine will suffer greater destruction as time go by as Russian ground forces struggles against Ukrainian ground forces because Russian airpower is not putting enough pressure on Ukrainian ground forces. The longer this 'Air parity - Air parity' status exists, the less impressive the VKS will be. The negative impression maybe unwarranted, but it will occur even if Russia eventually raised that status in its favor. The airpower lesson here is this: achieve Air Superiority ASAP no matter what may happen on the ground.
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What matters in a sanction isn't the head count. It is the money count.
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