Airfields are notoriously difficult to suppress, and the Russian military did not commit the weight of metal necessary to do so. Cratering runways must be comprehensive and precise: Runways are easy to repair and the least vulnerable to damage of all airfield components, while the Soviet-era MiG-29 Fulcrum in Ukrainian service was designed to operate from damaged, gravel-strewn airfields.
>Airfields are difficult to suppress
How? It can’t move just blow it up and everything in it until it’s nothing but a crater. Not trying to shitfling but I genuinely don’t understand how modern commanders can’t >Bomb the airfield into a greasy crater >Kill the pilots as they taxi on or off >Shell the airfield with artillery till it no longer exists.
As bad as Soviet-era AD are, it's still too dangerous to fly around within their range -- which is very large. That's why the US developed Wild Weasel and ARMs. Wild Weasel requires skilled and experienced pilots to attempt. ARMs are high-tech smart weapons that goes after emitting radars.
So, why hasn't Russia done Wild Weasel or used ARMs? First, Russian pilots have nowhere near enough essential flight hours and training -- so Wild Weasel is off the table. They DO have ARMs, but those use pre-programmed seekers which goes after specific, individual frequencies used by NATO. They don't have seekers programmed to go after Soviet frequencies. Meanwhile HARMs have no problem with that.
This gets memory holed, but Russia’s invasion took place AFTER Ukraine declared a state of emergency.
Ukrainian units were on high alert and were already calling up reservists.
When Russia moved it’s forces into Donetsk a day before the invasion, Ukraine moved it’s AD and it’s aircraft away from vulnerable spots, knowing a strike was coming.
The day of the invasion hardly had the rocket attacks most analyst expected, and the Air attacks were small and uncoordinated.
Meanwhile Ukrainian AD and Manpads made the attrition ridiculously high for Russians.
Why not start with large missile attacks, then air assaults, and then move your ground forces? They did it all backwards.
>russian comms suck on a good day because lol glonass >they decide to destroy all the towers their comms encryption ran on in ukraine during the first days of the invasion >information was deliberately kept secret of this special operation to where people were only briefed right before they were about to arrive to their targets >a huge bulk of russian artillery is old soviet era junk that has proven to be massively imprecise due to shitty metallurgy and decayed shells if you so much as look at it >no spotters and their guided munitions both suck ass and are completely irreplacable >the russian air force is virtually nonexistent and helis do nothing but frick around away from the front >all of this while ukraine was already in full DEFCON 1 mode and actively prepping the military for war
>all of this while ukraine was already in full DEFCON 1 mode and actively prepping the military for war
They spent like 7 years or something like that learning how to be real frickin NATO, russia proceeded to frick around and find out. If Ukraine is capable of putting up even a moderate defense, let alone a counteroffensive, there's no way on the PLANET Russia would be capable of actually competing directly with the entirety of NATO.
The only thing the slavaboo in chief has at this point is the threat of nuking something or letting another chernobyl happen because Vladimir is literally going insane.
The Ukrainians had a quite a bit of forewarning before the Russians actually crossed the border, so when they eventually did they were very quick to get most of their planes in the air to avoid them getting targeted by artillery.
Afterward, they just had to relocate to the intact airports further west and wait until Russia couldn't ensure air superiority.
Ukrainians keeping their IADS together and GLONASS not being precise enough to hit anything reliably.
Based squirrel, please help me in my time of need!
Airfields are notoriously difficult to suppress, and the Russian military did not commit the weight of metal necessary to do so. Cratering runways must be comprehensive and precise: Runways are easy to repair and the least vulnerable to damage of all airfield components, while the Soviet-era MiG-29 Fulcrum in Ukrainian service was designed to operate from damaged, gravel-strewn airfields.
>Airfields are difficult to suppress
How? It can’t move just blow it up and everything in it until it’s nothing but a crater. Not trying to shitfling but I genuinely don’t understand how modern commanders can’t
>Bomb the airfield into a greasy crater
>Kill the pilots as they taxi on or off
>Shell the airfield with artillery till it no longer exists.
>just drop 500 kilotons on the airfield
Just fill the holes
>blocks ur path
Good luck with that kiddo.
Unless you use specialty anti-runway bombs like the Durandal, a crater takes about an hour to fix with gravel and a patch.
They missed over half their shots at them
>ynr that dude taking off at full burner as artillery was falling around his plane
Post the link
nta but here you go
Actual Ace Combat bullshit going on here.
As bad as Soviet-era AD are, it's still too dangerous to fly around within their range -- which is very large. That's why the US developed Wild Weasel and ARMs. Wild Weasel requires skilled and experienced pilots to attempt. ARMs are high-tech smart weapons that goes after emitting radars.
So, why hasn't Russia done Wild Weasel or used ARMs? First, Russian pilots have nowhere near enough essential flight hours and training -- so Wild Weasel is off the table. They DO have ARMs, but those use pre-programmed seekers which goes after specific, individual frequencies used by NATO. They don't have seekers programmed to go after Soviet frequencies. Meanwhile HARMs have no problem with that.
>bad
Show me better ones, genious.
picrel
This gets memory holed, but Russia’s invasion took place AFTER Ukraine declared a state of emergency.
Ukrainian units were on high alert and were already calling up reservists.
When Russia moved it’s forces into Donetsk a day before the invasion, Ukraine moved it’s AD and it’s aircraft away from vulnerable spots, knowing a strike was coming.
The day of the invasion hardly had the rocket attacks most analyst expected, and the Air attacks were small and uncoordinated.
Meanwhile Ukrainian AD and Manpads made the attrition ridiculously high for Russians.
Why not start with large missile attacks, then air assaults, and then move your ground forces? They did it all backwards.
So Nigeria couldn't destroy all of Ukraines airfields because why?
Not enough missiles or anti air defenses are good?
>russian comms suck on a good day because lol glonass
>they decide to destroy all the towers their comms encryption ran on in ukraine during the first days of the invasion
>information was deliberately kept secret of this special operation to where people were only briefed right before they were about to arrive to their targets
>a huge bulk of russian artillery is old soviet era junk that has proven to be massively imprecise due to shitty metallurgy and decayed shells if you so much as look at it
>no spotters and their guided munitions both suck ass and are completely irreplacable
>the russian air force is virtually nonexistent and helis do nothing but frick around away from the front
>all of this while ukraine was already in full DEFCON 1 mode and actively prepping the military for war
>all of this while ukraine was already in full DEFCON 1 mode and actively prepping the military for war
They spent like 7 years or something like that learning how to be real frickin NATO, russia proceeded to frick around and find out. If Ukraine is capable of putting up even a moderate defense, let alone a counteroffensive, there's no way on the PLANET Russia would be capable of actually competing directly with the entirety of NATO.
The only thing the slavaboo in chief has at this point is the threat of nuking something or letting another chernobyl happen because Vladimir is literally going insane.
The Ukrainians had a quite a bit of forewarning before the Russians actually crossed the border, so when they eventually did they were very quick to get most of their planes in the air to avoid them getting targeted by artillery.
Afterward, they just had to relocate to the intact airports further west and wait until Russia couldn't ensure air superiority.