flat terrain.. This is ideal for the Russian airforce or Russia precision long range artillery to quickly dominate the fight.. Also ideal for battle tanks if yours are the most powerful .Is not like Lebanon for example.. or many parts in Syria that is full of hills with lots of places to hide and negate Airforce supremacy .
In theory if the Russian airforce invades ukraine it should be easy for them to fly above
Rebels controlled territory and fire air to land missiles to kiev positions in the front line from stand of position....and if for any reason their planes hit ,by manpads they could eject and land in Rebels territory ... Ukraine zone of conflict is not ideal to fight Russia that will dominate in no time the air space and push the ukies away from the front line.
This is the same for US airforce ,it will be in a major disadvantage trying to take control of Ukraine airspace if Russia deploys its S-400s missiles across the entire border ,with ukraine..
not only in Russia but also in Belarus.. Russia can effectively declare a no fly zone over all Ukraine without invading it. Because of the proximity of Ukraine with Russia Air Defenses. and its landscape peculiarity of so many flat terrain. it will be suicide for NATO to send any airforce or Tanks there. Russia will have the upper hand ,because of their higher range/precision capabilities of combat.
Cruise missiles like Tomahacks will be largely ineffective to hit anything in heavy electronic warfare environment. same with NATO drones.. In a fight with Russia ,The west will need to use
less technology ,and more tactics, using visual range weapons ,world war 1 trench warfare ,to have a chance to fight.. Something no one in Europe , or US will do . Reason im not worried remotely about any NATO invasion to Ukraine.. Because they will never go into a fight ,that they will be in a major logistical disadvantage. without Air or Land supremacy and the ability to use any of its modern
hardware and without satellites GPS help.
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