In other words F-16s can be housed into any NATO country to attack Russia and they still won't do anything if sukhois are hosted in romania.
An Su-24 flys very low and very fast and is a difficult target to deal with at the best of times... an Su-24 taking off from a motorway in Ukraine, and flying out into the Black Sea and launching some 500km range missiles 500km away from the targets they are going after and then immediately running to airfields in the west where they can land and then probably be shipped back to the Ukraine to do it all over again means they can launch missiles and have a decent chance of evading getting shot down.
If they use the F-16s in a similar way then they might be as effective as these Su-24s... which is to say not particularly effective.
They hit a single SAM TEL and a couple of old boats in a shipyard being repaired in a fairly large coordinated strike that likely too months and millions of dollars to coordinate and plan while risking platforms and using up millions of dollars in cruise missiles to achieve a pretty questionable result.
All this effort with such little gain... boy... they must be going to win now...
How many thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died on the battlefield as a distraction to this or is this the distraction to the continued destruction of Kievs forces?
F-16 can lift of from Romania, probably with NATO pilots too, the fly into Ukraine, release CMs and scoot. Basically, what Su-24 doing, but safer. I don’t think there will be any point in challenging Russian air power.
Which creates a situation where some sort of ambush could be organised to take out a few of these new super planes...
How does Ukraine even manage to operate fighter jets? I thought Russia could close their airports and bomb their hangars. Maybe I was missing something.
Most Soviet era aircraft including MiG-29 and Su-24 and Su-25 can operate from short stretches of roadway... keep them hidden... fuel them up and load them up and takeoff from a surprise location, fly low and fast to the launch point of the 500km range cruise missile you are carrying... release and then run for the border and land in a safe HATO country with your plane then dismantled and shipped to Ukraine on a train most likely... reassembled and sent to a different stretch of motorway.
We know these images are Fake, however, where is the before and after satellite footage when Russia obliterated the US Patriot missile systems? It would have been a powerful propaganda material against NATzO equipment
Do they want the west to know the quality of their view of Kiev and its nearby surroundings... and even if they provided clear video the west would show it and label it as the Orcs destroying S-400s in Moscow.
I like Putin, and praise him for being very careful about civilian lives, but he needs to add some Stalinist ruthlessness to his shrewdness.
A quarter of a million Ukrainian men are dead in this conflict at the very least... probably 400K or more in reality... that isn't by accident or a mistake.
Short video of Ropucha class ship "Minsk", recorded after the fire was extinguished. It looks like it won't be repaired, considering the age, as damage is too extensive.
They can add an extra Ivan Gren to the production list to replace that just fine.
The U.S. still has about 280 Trident IIs, which can carry almost three times the payload of the Bulava.
When the US launches 280 Tridents then it has lost because everyone has lost by then.
Would all 10 of those 10 missiles be targeted at the ship repair dock?
Would any of those 10 missiles target a shipyard drydock?
Obviously it is a soft target... they can claim destroying a Russian sub and pretend it is a brand new operational type, but the core reason they might target it is because it would not likely be as heavily defended as their actual sub pens... a bit like hitting that airfield when they struck some aircraft over in a far corner looking a bit derelict and abandoned and therefore easier to hit probably.
This is not a good advert for the mighty power of HATO cruise missiles.
Read somewhere 7 intercepted and 3 hit the dry dock.
So they knew most were going to get shot down so they target something out of the way to maximise the chance of something getting through.... a bit like shooting for an ankle or elbow because everything else is too well protected and you don't like your chances...[/quote]