Posted on 02/25/2024 7:41:17 AM PST by Chode
While far more asymmetric than the fighting on the ground, the air-war in Ukraine has demonstrated many of the same features - Adaptation, attrition, and the importance of resupply and sustainment.
Going into 2024, it's worth asking how two years of full-scale fighting have impacted the Russian and Ukrainian air-forces and how the fighting might be expected to evolve in 2024 as Ukraine converts to Western platforms as Russia pushes to derive more benefit from its significant advantage in airframes and munitions like glide-bombs.
And to address those questions, today I’m joined by Professor Justin Bronk (https://www.rusi.org/people/bronk), author of a number of notable reports on the air war in Ukraine, including the November 2022 piece linked below.
Obviously, all views expressed by Professor Bronk are his own – and likewise for those views I express over the course of this interview.
It is an interesting interview. It is over an hour long so I skipped over parts of it. Professor Justin Bronk looks to be in his mid-twenties, so I am not sure how much perspective he brings to the conversation.
“...asking how two years of FULL-SCALE FIGHTING”
There’s that Dog Whistle again - no need to bother with this article.
Air war opinionated commentary by a person who never flew a fighter, much less one in a shooting war.
The air war has two huge lessons that we need to pay attention to:
* SAMs have advanced so that even a mid tier power like Ukraine can shoot down anything that is overhead.
* The only effective tools are high volume/low cost drones that do damage even if most are lost
The era of the fighter pilot is over.
Bkmk
so I am not sure how much perspective he brings to the conversation.
the only way to find out is to listen to it...
just set it at 1.75x and let it run in the background, not much to see anyway
suit yourself...
“suit yourself...”
LOL, sorry. I figured out it was a nasty comment, but it was directed to the article, not to you posting it!
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“The only effective tools are high volume/low cost drones that do damage even if most are lost.”
We are teaching the Russians how to fight World War III. They ramped up intelligent drone production to over 32,000 a year and this is without buying extra drones from Iran. The dumber kamikaze drones are being produced by Sudoplatov group at around a 1,000 per day.
We can thank our military support of Ukraine for training them on how to completely overwhelm NATO in the near future. While making our expensive military hardware ineffective in any prolong war.
“The era of the fighter pilot is over.” That’s a big claim contradicted by Russia’s inattention to the SEAD mission (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) and lack of stealth fighter aircraft.
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