Russian invasion of Ukraine discussion
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Originally Posted by
alx01
I'll post a few interesting facts, and a question related to each:
Fact #1:
in 1992 Ukraine had 4th largest airforce in the world after U.S., Russia, and China with 1,100 operational combat planes split between 4 air armies.
Probably they had about 200 mothballed planes for parts and spares.
If Ukraine sold 200 planes, decommissioned another 300, Russians shot down ~220 planes, plus they restored 50-80 planes from parts and spares from former eastern bloc countries that leaves Ukraine with a healthy ~420 +/- operational combat planes. That is an enormous number still.
How can a country with such large airforce complain that they need weapons? Unless, of course, their airforce is much smaller due to undisclosed losses.
How could you possibly believe that statistic, regardless of accuracy at the time, means a ****ing thing 30 years later?
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