To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Would be nice if the U.S. was helping arm the Ukrainians. A few A-10's would be nice since Obama wants to decommission them:They have SU-25's, which are A-10 equivalents. A dozen of them have been shot down by Russian air defense units firing across the border. They need F-22's and F-35's to bomb without getting hit. The Israelis routinely knock out SAM batteries in Syria for locking on to their aircraft, but the Ukrainians aren't dealing with Syria.
21 posted on
08/15/2014 9:46:07 AM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Zhang Fei
"They have SU-25's, which are A-10 equivalents. A dozen of them have been shot down by Russian air defense..."
Which means A-10s would be mincemeat against a "modern" opponent without air superiority to begin with.
Likely lucky we didn't have to rely on them against a Soviet T-72 horde coming through the Fulda Gap (unless, of course, we ruled the air before-hand).
31 posted on
08/15/2014 10:48:05 AM PDT by
Psalm 73
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