Not really. You would need 3 times more pilots. They are expensive to train. That's why the su-27 is a better choice.
You are missing the point... having far fewer aircraft flying around means less coverage and less effective air defence... especially when the costs are the same essentially.
That's why they got ride of migs for sukhoi after the USSR. Su-27 is jist a better choice for the modern russian air force which is way smaller than the soviet air force.
They were a bankrupt country haemoraging money to the west... they couldn't afford any fighters and didn't buy any for a very long time... getting rid of one type made sense and getting rid of the small light aircraft made sense, but now they have money getting rid of the concept of affordable fighter would be stupid and short sighted.
Even on their aircraft carrier they have MiG-29KRs operating with the Su-33s because it means they can have more aircraft in total on the ship at any given time and the get the long range capacity of the Su-33 together with the MiG-29KR which is just as good at shorter ranges.
We just saw how a lancet destroyed a mig on such frontline airbase.
We did but that was an Orc airfield that is not as well defended as a Russian airfield is.
Or are you saying Russia does not need anything except Lancets and land mines to beat HATO?
The Lancet didn't just stumble on that MiG on the ground and if that MiG had been an Su-27 would you be saying Su-27s were junk and should be removed from service too?
Such things as frontline airbases are useless.
Bullshit. Russian attack helicopters seem to be doing an excellent job killing Ukrainian vehicles. Frontline bases are at risk but that risk can be managed.
If frontline airbases are useless why have we not seen continuous footage from Ukraine showing enormous numbers of helicopters and other aircraft destroyed at Russian air bases?
Maybe because the occasional lucky hit means **** all and only an idiot would think they are now useless because one base was hit one time.
You need to put your fighters far enough to deny the possibility to see them destroyed by cheap drones or missiles.
There are Ukrainians throughout Russian territory, each of which can buy a cheap small drone and fly it at any airfield or other target anywhere in Russia so what you are saying is that Russia cannot have an airforce because it is too vulnerable.
For this you need a good range which the mig-29 doesn't have, only modern version have but we are talking about the potentiel of upgrading old airframes. Su-27 is a better choice.
Su-27 is a bigger target and would be easier to find and hit on the ground.
They hinted they will use the tu-214 but nothing since. I think they should have both. Il-114 is cheap compare to a-50 and tu-214.
Everything is cheap till you fill it with expensive avionics and datalinks and put a big expensive AESA radar on it... there are no cheap AWACS aircraft.
Cost is the same as they use hundreds in the civilian aviation.
The cost of avionics and equipment will make them rather different and rather more expensive to buy and to operate.
I wonder if Russia will be fooled into further agreements this time. Just like Minsk or some nonsense about a neutral Ukraine that they proposed in April 2022.
Don't worry. Zelensky has already said no negotiations, it was all lies.
Funny that there was an article in a western publication that had his image and some words, but the word they made big above his picture was Nobody...
They realise he is now a nobody and he is costing the west money and causing problems and now they clearly want him gone...
Yes, but it would make sense if, by bringing many Ukrainian forces to Avdiivka, they made a larger breakthrough on the front in another section. However, progress on the entire front is micro.
Stop measuring progress in metres... it is measured in dead and injured and those that surrender and burning vehicles and ammo and fuel dumps.
The Pentagon secretly handed over the Assault Breacher "anti-mine spider" to Ukraine — Forbes.
The cost of an armored vehicle is ~$4 million. The crew can dig out and safely detonate laid mines, fill trenches and build anti-tank ramparts, and then mark with tiny flags a safe lane for tanks and combat vehicles that will pass through the breach at high speed
I think they will notice that... Can it survive a Kornet to the nose?
They must be defeated here, and forced to withdraw en masse from the left bank
If they don't suffer a collapse before then and get rid of Zelensky and offer an unconditional surrender.
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An officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is blamed for the incident, for inexplicably gathering a large number of soldiers in one place in a front-line village for a "ceremonial awarding of the personnel." This occurred despite the fact that the Russians "monitor any gathering of more than two people."
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