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In reply to the discussion: Where does DU stand? [View all]lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)I don't think an air force of a few dozen fighter planes will be that useful.
You need working airports and jet fuel for those planes... and ammo, missiles, etc.
And the planes won't stop artillery or missiles.
What the Ukrainians need right now is Iron Dome PLUS a shit ton more stinger / javelin missiles.
To "win" this they one need to destroy all of the equipment that rolled over the border and defend the sky with a decent missile defense.
That puts all of the russian troops outside their armor vehicles and then the civilian civil defense people can pick them off or starve them or simply wait for the russians to surrender.
If you wanted to give the Ukrainians an air force... I guess we could sell them a couple of aircraft carrier task forces. Sail them in to the Black Sea... if we had a year or two for them to learn how to operate the carriers and the weapons and the planes.