[commondenom]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I think you AND your Russian friends will be very surprised.
I live in Tucson, Arizona, which is a big Air Force Base town, with Davis-Monthan AFB. I know a LOT of fighter pilots. The vast majority are of the opinion that 24 hours after the U.S. goes into action, there will not be a single Russian aircraft of any type still airborne. None of them seem to be apprehensive in the least.
I guess it will depend on how stupid Putin is.

come on.....how many times have american politicians and troops been over-confident in themselves and their abilities to quickly end a conflict?

every time.



great video OP.....

[am1984]

56% OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION HAS VOTED "FOR" & NOT "AGAINST" THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE. GO CHECK UNGA VOTING RECORDS

[nzcelt]

If she’s captured she’s dead

[medicineman360]

Originally Posted by Faylans ↗

People who think the US would engage in conflict with Russia over Ukraine are retarded. The US has no interest in Ukraine.

Agreed... But to a point. It's a shitty situation, and the current administration (ANY administration, for that matter) is in a political hard-to-win situation. They don't dare send conventional US forces into the fight, but if sanctions aren't enough, then what do?

A-10s wouldn't be an illogical choice, but not knowing the range, etc of of them, you'd also need adequate support troops for even a single squadron, I'd imagine.

However, regardless of anything else, I'd bet $20 that the US already has SOF troops on the ground, helping conduct non-conventional actions (PsyOps, etc) against Russian forces. I'm sure there will always be hawks in the DoD who want nothing more than to go up against the Russian military, no matter how they go about it.

Just don't let them get captured.

[evilcommie]

A10’s would be a liability.
I don’t see how they will be survivable in this theatre. Ukraine is wide open with little hills.

It will be extremely difficulty to go low enough to mask an attack run like an attack helicopter can. Without the ability to make a sneaky attack, It would be extremely vulnerable to AAA, auto cannon fire as well as man pads.

We can already observe that the similar Su25 is suffering the highest loss rates on both sides.

[dbaile2]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I hope her toll of the Russian Separatists in Eastern Ukraine is very high.
And her toll if the Russians invade the remainder of Ukraine is even HIGHER!

I dont think putin really wants to invade the entire country but he wont tolerate being surrounded by NATO,EU on his boarders so he'll level the country to the ground or they'll remain a buffer zone. It makes sense.

[banklimit]

This sniper woman is a hero and also beautiful. I really admire her.

[bigdogmean12]

[jollymon]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

A-10 only works against third world countries

I beg to differ. The A-10 Warthog was developed to defeat Soviet armor and has been upgraded several times to stay up to par with advanced armor. It fly's slow for pinpoint accuracy but fast enough that the tank it is targeting cannot get a bead on it.

[WhiskeyOutpost]

The A-10 was indeed specifically designed to defeat Soviet armor. It's an absolute beast that can take an enormous amount of damage - if memory serves, an A-10 in the Persian gulf war got half a wing blown off over Iraq along with lots of other damage and still flew back to Saudi arabia and landed safely

Problem is, the Russians do have a lot of surface to air batteries in a very, very small place. Might be suicide for those A-10 pilots, even with how many flares and chaff they can carry.