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IMO these critics are used to air superiority which Ukraine doesn't have.
It’s crazy to me that any military doctrine as a base assumption relies on air superiority. How could you ever assume that if facing off against a peer nation? Though I guess with nuclear armament there’s an assumption that you’ll never face off against a peer level natuon
That's what 70 years of exclusively using your military as the enforcers of neo-colonialism does. Turns out what works for leveling a low-tech guerilla hideout in Vietnam or Afghanistan isn't so effective when your opponent has comprehensive SAM networks.
Regardless being what it is, I wonder why a few A10s couldn't be leased to provide air support.
Its a plane with little to no cutting edge technology, perfect for ground support and anti armor and entrenched positions.
I agree and have heard stories of Ukrainians already training on them. But, I wonder if depleted uranium ammo might be a problem.
In the sense that is a controlled ammunition or a banned one?
That brings to mind the fragmentation bombs.
I think there are laws which would prohibit the export of depleted uranium
Yet.
It'll take some 6 months but then they'll start having air support and soon air superiority.
However, Ukraine doesn't have 6 months. They don't know how the US election will go, it they will still have an ally in the US. They MUST press on so into the meat grinder they go.
US election is more than a year away though.
Yeah and they'll need every minute of it to get to a point where the cjjan ico Russia out. F16 jets won't come at.keast for another 6 months, they can't sit on their hands until then, so until then, the meat grinder it is...