(November 20, 2025 at 9:34 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(November 20, 2025 at 3:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Rather odd that F-16s, the best aircraft in the UAF inventory right now, are being used for ground-attack. The implication is clear, that the SAM/AAA threat is very manageable -- probably because the Russians are having to disperse their limited anti-air assets to defend their refineries and munitions dumps from ... uh ... smoking accidents.
1300 aerial targets downed and counting too - most of them missiles and drones..and since it's russia, headed towards the nearest maternity ward.
The priority list for russian air defense appears to be moscow, crimea, fossil fuels, and then finally the front. Sucks to be a russian soldier.
Not to mention that their AD assets nearer to the front are getting pegged by drones, which they have a hard time tracking. May as well be Wehrmacht in 1944 wondering where the fuck the Luftwaffe is. Fighting without air-cover has been a no-no since, I dunno, forever.
