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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also consider air power is no silver bullet.  Our own wars over the last twenty years where we enjoyed entirely permissible air supremacy have proved this.  We still lost.  
Flip it around though.  The Russians have total air supremacy and are getting bogged down.  They themselves will get to a point perhaps of diminishing returns on the battlefield with regards to air power; the difference in capability may in the end not prove at all decisive.[/quote]

But when it comes to your own family stuck in Mariupol, you'd be desperate for jets to regain control of the skies to drop some critical first necessities like medication, surgical kits, rehydration salts, and rations.

The cold calculus of war is that Ukraine can rebuff Russia and perhaps persuade it that the invasion isn't worth it, despite fighter jets, but at what horrific human cost?

This is why Zelensky made such repeated, public appeals. His people are dying from thirst, cold exposure, lack of meds and wounds. [/quote]
A squadron of older model MiG-29s won’t make a whit of difference.  They’ll be dead the first couple of days or bombed out on the airfield.  You can’t drop humanitarian supplies from a fighter.   [/quote]

Duh. The goal is to clear the skies then drop in supplies.[/quote]

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