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War in Ukraine. how the Russian Air Force was silenced despite its superiority

On the first day of the invasion, the balance of forces was terrifying. The Russian army could count on a large fleet of modern combat aircraft. Moscow has fielded 559 fighter jets, including more than 300 produced over the past fifteen years. 120 tactical bombers have been added to blacken Ukrainian skies and bombard Kyiv’s defenses.

In the face of this attack, what could forty Ukrainian fighters and bombers, hardly more, do? And yet, seven months after the conflict began, the Russian Air Force is still sitting on the ground, completely helpless, reduced to the role of a spectator. And when he deploys some of his best vehicles near the front line, he suffers humiliating losses. “Originally, the Ukrainian air defense systems, inherited from the Soviet era and never modernized, are formidable.“, explains Pierre Grasser, a researcher and specialist at the University of Paris-Sorbonne…

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Source: Le Figaro

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