The West is Learning the Wrong Lessons about Airpower in Ukraine
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Western experts continuously make inappropriate comparisons between Russia’s air campaign in Ukraine to the US air campaign in Iraq in the 1990s and against in 2003;
Such experts ignore the primary difference where Iraq lacked modern integrated air defenses while Ukraine began in 2022 with significant defenses;
These same experts ignore the significant losses US military aviation suffered in contested airspace such as over Vietnam where the US lost over 10,000 aircraft or the necessity of US military aviation to use stand-off strikes in Syria because of the presence of modern air defense capabilities;
While Western experts laud the performance of the US-made Patriot missile system, the fact that interceptors cannot be made in large enough quantities detracts from its overall efficacy;
Russia’s use of military aviation in Ukraine reflects the realities both on and above the battlefield, realities that would effect Western air forces were they in Russia’s place;
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NEO - The West is Learning the Wrong Lessons about Airpower in Ukraine (July 23, 2024):
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Business Insider - Russia's showing NATO its hand in the air war over Ukraine (July 13, 2024):
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The Mitchell Institute - US Fixed Wing Aircraft Losses of the Vietnam War 1962-1973 (June 2018):
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CNN - ‘Their tactics have changed’: Russia’s bid to blow apart Ukraine’s power grid (April 2024):
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Al Jazeera - Saudi Arabia may run out of interceptor missiles in ‘months’ (January 2022):
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CNN - Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine (March 2024):
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Here is the article I covered in the video: journal-neo.su/2024/07/23/the-west-is-learning-the-wrong-lessons-about-airpower-in-ukraine/
Brian: Can you please share your views on the effectiveness of the American F-22 Raptor? It is presented as a gamechanger in aerial warfare (for instance against china) Thanks
@@waldtradition1166the raptor Is tbe best jetfighter ever built and also the one that is simply too good to keep.
But for the cost involved, it was never a keeper. Yes, it will own any airspace you send it to and bury every other fighter. Thats is not even a contested claim.
But its deadweight for any other role, so the US Pivoted to the F35, an overall Less domineering fighter, but a much bigger multirole jet. "Good enough" is actually that: good enough.
With the mid term goal of teaming f35 with missile truck drones, the idea is to BVR every engagement.
Tbe superior Flight characteristics of tbe f22 do not come to play.
So in short: the F22 is the Best Jetfighter ever Built, it has no competition and as such is living the life of a superior specialists that is never called on to duty.
@TheNewAtlas What a Joke, No One Can Hold Back the Tidal Wave of US Air Power!
Did you just un ironically state that the Us airforce is not superior to Russian airforce? what planet do you live on? 2:03
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 🤣🤣🤣🤣 based on what ?
There is one area where Western weapons are superior: cost. As long as the price remains high, MIC will be satisfied.
They try to achieve superiority in terms like 1:4+. That can only achieve a momentary setback for a peer rival. In this war the Russians have something like 2 weeks learning curve and then they over that superior weapon. The West can try with F-22s, F-35s, and the B-2s and learn how much time elapses before they too are spoofed for good.
Russia treats it's citizens as cannon fodder. 500k casualties and you think you are doing well? Lol.
Pretending that that price and complexity doesn't produce results is a bit silly.
But they are subject to assumptions that may or may not be realistic, for example availability of a GPS signal. ;)
Not enough. The profit margin also needs to be high.
@@Slavic_Goblin Do you know why American made equipment got the upper hand in WW2? Because they were simpler in design than German ones. They broke down less and had less downtime.
Then they imported a whole lot of Ex-nazi scientists and complicated everything.
The west is filled with special people, who have special view on reality🙄
wearing special hats.
But they're very environment-conscious, riding on the short bus.
More like special needs to me.
this why WEST is losing money and proxy wars
The west's special reality is having non stop wars with the countries they don't like or don't agree with.
while they killl lots of the civilian population, and contaminate those countries' soil, air environment, they call this superiority, victory, which is very ironic.. in reality it is nothing more than cowardly wars of hit and run.. it does not fit in the reality of the west that the air.always moves, the contamination always spreads as a consequence.of which the west goes on the war of pretence with its own population. The west has also to fight the wars of other kind on its own home ground, the home front which has nothing to do with its. air superiority.. the West has chosen wars of attrition with its own people.
Like Brian, I'm an American living in Thailand. The way the USA wants to bully everyone on this planet is embarrassing and totally insane.
Pardon me, an American living elsewhere and paying taxes to USA to bully everyone else is so hypocritical, me think. Be not an American (US) anymore, than we believe you.
Americans who think like you usually say they are Canadian as they feel ashamed to reveal their true identity and I don't blame them!
@@carlgreene538 lol
You americans deserve a better leadership. The bunchbof warmonrgers leading your country wikk evetually make of it a dysfunctional rumpnstate, at some stage.
Do you support China’s nine or ten dash line in the South China Sea?
Russia did not establish air superiority at the start, neither did it takeout power stations, telephone, or rail, Because
this is a ''Special Military Operation'' SMO in accordance with United Nations Article 51, They have not breached this
regulation at all. If Russia had invaded Ukraine it would all be over and Ukraine would be a waste land.
by now it is about 3-4 times more special and 2 more year special than when it started and some of us are getting fed up with all the death.
Now, Russia isn't in its SMO anymore. It's at full war against Ukraine.
@@CJFCarlsson Who are "we", this could be over 1 month in, but you know what happened.
I must point out that you are talking nonsense Anthony. Article 51 and the SMO, where did you find the connection between them? Article 51: "Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security". Where did you find any mention of SMO in it unless it was in such fine print that I couldn't see it….😂
@@CJFCarlssonyou obviously was not clued up on what is involved in the processof a countrybeing "demilitarized" means.
It means lots of death, the death of anyone who is willing/forced to fight.
"America and NATO always establish air superiority right away."
America and NATO haven't faught anyone with a modern airforce or modern air defense system in..., well, ever.
That’s not exactly true. Iraq had a decent air defense systems. I agree not on par with Russias, though.
@@DarkArtsDeepDivebut did you consider the many other factors like crew training ?
Irak's defense systems were built by the French, who have the blueprints to USA in advance...
Behold the superiority 🙄
They always established air superiority over shepherds in slippers.
Its an objective fact that certain countries have better tech and more tech than others deal with it. Russia has fuckall C4ISR
Thank you Brian for all the hard work you do, 👍✊
Every time the explanation starts with "Western experts" my brain automatically switches 3 levels back.
😂😂😂
Me after watching this so called "experts" in the French media 😂
kamala harris is the 2nd most elite expert in the west.
I get a neuron mass harakiry event, everytime i hear about "western experts".
They're not saying anything supposedly controversial yet refuse to give their real names. Seems they have something to hide.
The US and it's troops have been creating myth since post Korean war😂. They never face real military power since😂
Who has Russia faced huh because they are not fighting America only it's technology not the American slow down buddy u don't want Russia to actually fight America they would lose horribly 😂take care of little Ukraine before u talk bad about the big Boys they never fought an American seasoned fighter it won't work well for Russia they might ad well go nuclear conventionally Russia cannot defeat America
What about Vietnam?
@@nottinghambouy Those were just farmers. 🤣🤣🤣 Never under estimate a defending force.
And always in a coalition, never on their own.
@@nottinghambouy Vietnam was not real power. They just lucky to drag the war longer.
I believe these underestimations of Russian capabilities are not Western Misconceptions. I think this is the result of substituting Western Propaganda for Military Intelligence.
It been that way for a long time.
Alas, propaganda can get so thick it can permeate all the way into military and civilian leadership. Anyone remembers Bush's "Mission Accomplished" blunder for Iraq?
Maybe intelligence is preoccupied with suppression of public opinion?
Really appreciate you reading it out
The US lost the war in Afghanistan, and so far they have not won the war against Yemen.
$2 trillion dollars tax payers monies laundered before the new project of Ukraine - I would say that was a sucessful war for the "elites" Personally I dont think the US had any intention of winning in Afghanistan
the us quit wasting time and money on those people. cant save them they doont wanna be saved.
a bunch of sand fleas with drones control the Red Sea. too funny.
American could have never survived if facing the same challenge like Russia imagine they use an atomic bomb just fighting Japan imagine if they are fighting multiple countries like NATO it's doing against Russia....
@@MukadisAymen-ui8fy Thats a valid point
Russia has a winning military strategy, Ukraine and NATO have a PR strategy. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
PR stategy loses by its own means. Russia only need to stand its ground and do nothing while the clown show continue. For all to see.
Bingo!
3 more days and you are in Kiev, comrade, congratulations!!
TBH Russia start was far from amazing, But they learned with their mistakes and adapted.
@@tiagodagostini "Those who are able to adapt and change in accord with the enemy and achieve victory are called divine." - Sun Tzu
So much pain in the ass of western "experts" about Russian made shovels using wash machine chips.
Don't you have computer chips in your shovel?
@@ЯрославЛ-ф1ж I don't think so since the western mass media has been insisting for years that Russians loot the wash machines in Ukraine to make more shovels to loot more wash machine chips to make more shovels to loot more chips. They never stated Ukrainians have left the computer chips. Roger that?
@@ЯрославЛ-ф1ж sorry this yt keeps deleting my reply
@@ЯрославЛ-ф1жI got no shovel sorry 😆
I do
Being a SMO Russia has not destroyed everything unlike a war . Considering the West has sent every air defence system possible this sais it all .
Nope; not for unbiased anyway. Fact is, that Russia has never waged Strategic Air Campaign but in Ukraine stumbled into Air Defence system of their own making that was built to thwart just such campaign. Misalignment was countered with scale and competence. Also price for maintaining impressive 1200 combat aircraft was that Russian Aerospace Force was _hollowed_ - low flying hours, no complex scenarios trained in force, late introduction PGMs and low rate purchases. West on the other hand never depended on Ground Based Air Defence to such extent for obvious reasons.
@@piotrd.4850 :) LOL!
@KRC1351
Great point!
@@piotrd.4850 that make sense. BC the main purpose of Russian Air force/Air defense is to DEFENSE huge airspace of Russia. Unlike US Airforce with the main objective gear towards projecting power globally and penetrate opponent airspace to perform deep strike
In stark contrast with Gaza, where no target is too sacred.
NATO has the power of denying air access to weak countries like Iraq and Libya, but it can't forbid Russia to fly over Ukraine. That shows who really masters the sky.
after this proxy war, EU, NATO will be the biggest loser.
NATO isn't at war with Russia, technically speaking.
It's not nato it's Ukraine so yea u would expect inexperienced flyers but yet ppl will.run with it because it's America tech lmao if an actual American seasoned fighter was flying in Ukraine Russia would be doomed
@@piotrd.4850
32 countries against 1 and still ...losing
Technical / non-technical ...doesn't matter
@@piotrd.4850technically speaking,yes.They are only trying to keep it low key so that their population is not affected.
The proxy war in Ukraine is the first time NATO has tried to pick on someone their own size and NATO is getting humiliated...
Ąmêêrïkąn "exceptional" power was always against "unexceptional" enemies who was no peer. What a joke...
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russia shoots itself in the dick while not facing NATO OR NATO tech newer than 20 years
how humilating
how is Ukraine the same size of Russia? Lmao what a victimist crybaby, how many NATO soldiers dead? how many russians?
Except NATO isn't fighting in Ukraine ...
All there is is Russia playing WW1 trench warfare against Ukraine ...
Remember NATO in Bosnia? Shame on NATO!!!
If people don't remember, there are several multi-hour documentaries on this platform showing exactly how NATO forces were mostly just observers, unless directly fired upon... in one instance, a town 'kidnapped' a high ranking officer in a desperate attempt to prevent their genocide.
@@AWEdio Riiiight....NATO is a benevolent organization working on helping others in need. That is why its headquarters looks like a double SS symbol.
NATO is a short form of National American Terrorist Organization
@@pero33403 NATO provoked the war in Ukraine.
@@MeYou-yz2yz Yes, they did, you are right about that. And many other wars too.
Well Written! Thank you, very much
Something about near peer opponents.............. Suddenly you can't punch down like you always did.
Great analysis brian❤
@@dlmdee Let's be honest, U.S. indeed has better jets.
The problem comes from stationing, refueling, maintenance and all the other wonders of resupply chain which U.S. doesn't have easy access to, while Russia DOES, because it's on their border.
@@4X10S Whether the US has better jets or not is *not* the point! The point Brian made in this video was that it's the air-defence capabilities that are important. What's the point of having gee-whiz fighters and bombers if they're all shot down from the ground by better *air defence* systems?
@@4X10SIn the past, I agree with you but today we don't really know the quality of US aircraft simply because they're not tested in a battle against each other. Honestly, I've more faith in Russia as their MIC are state owned while in the US their MIC are private entities whose main objective is more and ever more profits for their shareholders. Just look at Boeing. The quality of Boeing is really bad due to cost savings on inferior materials used. There are doubts about how good the F 35 is as this aircraft apparently has lots of problems.
@@peterlim1972 Su-57M is on par or better than the F-22 and F-35.
@@m16-a2 I personally think the SU 57M is better.
Was the US SUCCESSFUL in Afghanistan and elsewhere? If so, why did it run away, under the cover of darkness, handing victory to the Talibans?
The Military Industrial Complex had a new war in Ukraine to start / profit/launder tax payers money from - The idea is not to win war but too profit from continous war , hence dropping Afghan- They will drop Ukraine one day , not before they start a new one first
Music played in the streets of Kabul and an increased amount of women got secondary education during the US occupation..Life expectancy of women even rose during the occupation. Why did it run away? because Trumpty Dumpty made a deal with the Taliban..
@@koyaanisqatsi78 Biden was the one in office, and in his own words "The buck stops with him". Unless you were going to make Afghanistan a state, you were never going to hold it. Anyway, I hope you don't need to start a draft anytime soon, because you're just gonna lose everything if you do. It won't be like the anti-war crowd of Vietnam, it will be more like the French Revolution.
@@koyaanisqatsi78 ... the US rout from Afghanistan was during the Biden administration, the Biden administration's final decision in Apr_2021 was to begin the withdrawal on May_1st 2021, but the final pull-out of all US troops was delayed until Sep_2021..
Russia loses more soldiers in some days than the US lost in 2 decades of fighting in the Middle East. The only battle they lost with what the American publics willpower to continue what they saw as largely pointless. They didn’t lose battles they lost support. And rightfully the US didn’t need to be blowing money it realistically didn’t have to try to defeat an ideology.
To quote Stalin: “Quantity has a quality all its own.”
My cousin and her partner visited Vietnam for a holiday before Covid they loved the country and the people.A trip conducted by a tour hotel they stayed in proudly did a day showing war memorials including a downed B52 which allegedly didn’t happen in western media!
FR Yugoslavia also shot down an F-117A Nighthawk, it was show down by a A-125 Neva short-range SAM system.
@@ravenouself4181 yes it was hardly publicised in the uk
Brian. My ears and hearing are quite old. I want you to know I appreciate the energy with which you speak and you quite possibly have the finest sound system in the foreign affairs domain. You have an excellent sound booth. I do not need to activate closed captions to understand you. Thank You Sir for attention to detail !
Thank you Darryl. We live in interesting times. All the best to you.
The North Vietnamese airdefense was as a force to reckon with, any US veteran pilot will tell you that. Their Soviet SAM system cover a long range and high altitues layer of defense, forcing enemy to fly low, to approach their target, only for them to discover a numerous well hidden flaks which target them at that height. Those who fought their way through all of that would face Soviet Migs with air-to-air intercepting missile integrated with ground radar system. Between 2,251 to 3,744 aircrafts where shot down and 5,607 helicopters in the spand of 13 years. All of that were achived with a help of Soviet/Russian, whos military and humanitarian aids was 20 times less than US war expenses in Vietnam.
Hilarious-Russia defeated USA in Vietnam-and here we are again.
You forgot they part where US politicians forced their armed forces to use ONE PUBLIC corridor to fly their bombing campaign of Vietnam so that impresive air defence you are talking about was posible because the american politicians tied the hands of the military there is a good video where the fat electrician explains all of this so go ahead and watch it I am going to after this to remember some details
@@alextercarrera584 You invented that part my friend, from listening to loosers who explained how they loose so much aircrafts.
First of all US had main 4 airbases from which they flew to bomb Vietnam. Danang, Saigon in south VN. Bangkok in Thailand and another in Philipinese, I know geography is not popular in American school, but I am telling you you cant use 1 corridor to bomb Noth Vietnam flying from 3 different countries, located in different direction.
Secondly if again you learn geography, Vietnam is not a big territory, so you cant savely penetrate Vienam airspace nomatter how much corridor you fly, radar will detect you before you even approach North Vietnam airspace. Given that the the middle of vietnam is a very narrow parth, and most of military installation was there, you seriously expect to find any save part to there? What are you gona do fly to China and make hook back through entire North Vietnam to strike southern border of North ietnam? And you really thing the North Vietnamese with Russian assistance can not figureout to put radar in Laos and Cambodia to early detect your aircrafts?
And finally you seriously think it were the politican who forced military to use one corridor? Name me please those politicans. This is bullshit on so many levels. Politicans don't make military planing, they give order, Joint Chiefs of Staff draw plan, military officers excecute it. US Polican can't even point on map where is the country they are currently at war with, they cant force anybody to fly in one corridor, because they cant point out that corridor. You military generals are simply incompetent and arrogant they cant believe rice farmers can operate sofisticated airdefensse and even fly aircrafts, that is, they did the same mistake in Serbia, and get F-117 shot down, and they are making the same mistake again by underestimating Russia.
You may not be impress by Soviet/Russian air defense, but the airdefense dont give a sh!t about you, it has integraged long range radar it detects aircraft, it launches missiles which fly way faster than your impressed aircrafts and shot them down, and then North Vietnamese farmers melt the scraps into the world most expensive dishes made from aviation grade aluminium. You know what is unimpressed? The US pilots' skill, The North Vietnamese who had a tiny airforce were able to shot down more US aircraft and pilots, there is a list of Vietnam war aces, just google it, there were only 5 US aces vs 19 North Vietnamese and almost all of them shot down more aircrafts then American counterparts. The poor performance of US pilots lead into creation of famous TOP GUN school, where they gathered WW2 veterant pilots to teach US pilot how to do dogfight. So the only myth is US airpower, which is nothing but numeric and funding advantage.
❤Thank you very much yet AGAIN for your TRUTHFUL advice and professional insight. Good work Teacher Brian
It is always good to listen to a realistic analysis of the situation. Thank you.
As per former spokesman for Ukrainian Air Force col. Yuriy Ihnat, Patriot system is not capable of intercepting Kh-22/32, Oniks, Iskander and Kinzhal because those missiles are too fast as for Patriot's capability (all of them are faster than Mach 3). As per col. Ihnat, none of those missiles has been shot down since the beginning of SMO.
Ukrainian propaganda said they shot down all of the Russian missiles. 😂😂😂
All the time 😂
Afraid that they have say and begging for everything responsible politicians in Washington together with mighty weapon industry complex owner's demand them to say.
Sadly for Ukraine, they lost their independence after presidential coup in Ukraine 2014, only been used as a tool to get control over most of recourses that the world needs.
For responsible politicians in Washington, this is only a fight for a more dominant position in the world 🌎
Sadly, they ending up weakening themselves and make BRICS alliance much more powerful.
Also managed to destroy the petrodollar, 50 years agreement with Saudi Arabia went out 9 June, Saudi Arabia said that they would not renew it.
Because they choose to join Russia and China BRICS alliance.
So yes, responsible politicians in Washington are becoming more and more desperate now.
They brought their own country in really deep shit.
That's a fact...
The Patriot system is able to destroy Kinzhals. They fire off 32 missiles in a spectacular display of force and then wait for the Kinzals to arrive. Then the crew and modules of Patriot throw themselves in the way. They do stop the missiles in a spectacular explosion but are unable to repeat it for a second missile.
@@davidlazarus67 yeah, you know what does stop the missile?
The target it hits.
America lost 10,000 aircraft in the Vietnam War? Damn that's brutal
Good for defence industries, and really disastrous for the American and Vietnamese People.
And over 500,000 PEOPLE.. WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT😢😢😢
Reference in the video is 4:12. It's aircraft and helicopters
Even as late as 1972, it hadn’t established air supremacy over North Vietnam. The USAF lost 15 B-52’s during the Linebacker II raids, for example.
@@E.Johansson The US lost 761 F4 Phantoms, alone,in the Vietnam war. 528 USAF and 233 USN. So a total of 10,000 is probably pretty conservative for all aircraft losses.
"Imperial hubris" vs unpleasant reality.
"An inconvenient truth" is coming home to America...
@@pariaheep Well, they are now the "average age" of an Empire and doing everything they can to speed run a societal collapse.
as the russian fegeration is learning right now. good for them their people don't consider mass casualties a problem like westwen countries do.
Thank you for your hard work and honesty. ❤🎉🎉🎉😊
WEST living in the past, and unable to learn fr their many proxy wars. even USA DOD admitted that half of F-35 fleets are UN-operible do to lack of funding, technical men power, and materials. BUSINESS INSIDER don't mention how much this proxy war costs to American tax payers. in time, USA will learn to treat every countries as equal because USA's economy is slowly falling down. even Janet Yellen admitted that China over produce, and trade with many countries with equal.
Full combat capability rate of the F35 is a contentious point. Some say 60%, but I watched a sparing match between Matt Gaetz and Loyd Austin, where Austin admitted to a 29% full combat capability rate. 50% is an unacceptable rate for a brand new 100 million dollar aircraft. 29% is reprehensible. As Gaetz called the F35 a $100 paper weight.
@@johnulmer6715 you made good point. Matt Gaetz and Loyd Austin missed a huge issue, which F-35 program is a massive paper weight, that American tax payers have to pay for it. even 30% of F-35 fleet isn't in operational mode, 70% of F-35 program has huge funding problem; maintenance costs, operational costs, ect.. and Matt Gaetz and Loyd Austin didn't mention that US DOD is working on even more expensive fighter jets; 6th gen. and USA is running $1T every 100 days. not to mention, US has to import materials from BRICS
Америка попала в свой капкан. Глупые. Они думали Россия падёт , и они опять будут пить её кровь..... Потраченный миллиарды и миллиарды долларов, и всё в пустую, Запад не знает как выбраться из этой ловушки. Ещё тратить деньги? Прекратить? А кто вернёт потраченные деньги? Замкнутый круг. Россия спокойно может воевать около 10 лет без особого ущерба для себя, так сказали наши военные. Запад нажал кнопку ,, самоуничтожение “ и даже не заметил этого.
@@basook6116 THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE SUNK THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY INTO A FAILURE AND NOW GOING TO FINANCE ANOTHER VERSION WITHOUT FINDING REASONS THE F--35 HAS FAILED IS SHEER STUPIDITY!! WASTED TAX MONEY HAS BEEN THE NORM FOR U S DEFENCE DEPT!!! YESTERDAY THE PENTAGON ANNOUNCED ANOTHER ACCOUNTING ERROR THAT JUST HAPPENS TO GIVE UKRAINE 6.2 BILLION MORE DOLLARS TO LAUNDER BACK INTO THE PENTAGON LEADERSHIP POCKETS !!! PENTAGON AS A WHOLE SHOULD BE RESTRAINED FROM ANY SPENDING UNTIL AN AUDIT IS IN PLACE AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SUCH ABUSE OF TAXES IS STOPPED !!! IF THEY ARE BUILDING JETS THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO BE USED CONSISTENTLY FOR THEIR INTENDED USE THEY AMOUNT TO THE PAPERWEIGHT GAETZ SPOKE OF !! THE MIC IS BUILDING JUNK AND RIPPING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OFF TO FACILITATE THE TRANSFER OF WEALTH EXPRESSLY TO THE ELITES!! AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEING BLED TO DEATH LITERALLY BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AND THE OLIGARCHY CLASS !! IN MY OPINION THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE AND THE COUNTRY IS AT RISK OF COLLAPSE !!! THE CONGRESS HAS CHOSEN NOT TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE BUT TO ENRICH THEMSELVES BY FACILITATING UKRAINE, GAZA, AND NEXT THE WARS WITH IRAN AND CHINA TO FILL THEIR POCKETS EVEN FURTHER !!! AM I THE ONLY ONE DISGUSTED ?? DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN WE ARE ALL LOSING OUR COUNTRY TO CORRUPTION! IMO
@@johnulmer6715 Russian physicist Pyotr Umfetsov invented stealth in the early 1960s. The authorities decided it was worthless and published the mathematics involved in a book. Lockheed discovered and translated the research in the early 1970s.
It is well known in the radar community that the 'stealth' capabilities of the F-35 are almost nonexistent against modern Russian radar.
Fascinating intellectual young man, thank you
I briefly shared this view with an Marine Osprey pilot in 2019. I said "(western) air-power can fly into Russian integrated AD networks but, they will not fly out". He, the pilot, got mad and moved away from me. It's not that difficult to see through the smoke and mirrors that exist in this world.
Inflated egos make mistakes. Humility is needed to win
So marine pilot thinks what..?...typical american arrogant fool thinking he is big time..😂😂😂😂
The latest survey by the KIIS, which has conducted polling about Ukrainians' attitudes to Russia's SMO since May 2022, suggested a shift in opinion. The poll found that 32 percent of Ukrainians said they would accept ceding territory to "achieve peace and preserve independence," compared to 26 percent in February this year. It was 9 percent in February 2023. "Ukrainian morale for reclaiming all territories may be waning due to exhaustion and heavy losses," Viktor Kovalenko, a defense analyst and former Ukrainian soldier told Newsweek. "Their military has shifted to a defensive stance, lacking the capabilities for a counteroffensive. Despite assurances of unwavering support, Western aid appears increasingly uncertain."
The survey also found that 55 percent of respondents still opposed giving up territory to Russia if it would end the war. However, this was down from 74 percent of the population in December 2023 who held this view.
This was also a drop of 10 percentage points from the 65 percent of people who backed such a move in February 2024.
Does it even matter in the end? Ukraine is under an autoritarian militaristic regime, so people's polls are redundant.
Do you believe the survey? People get murdered for voicing the 'wrong' opinion in b*nderastan.
Are people living under NATO occupied territory and its fascist puppets free to answer freely ? See the polls and votes in freed régions. Free of Western propagande too ..
There's absolutely no reason to fe l sorry for those m0r0ns
@@bibitiptoes1473 Gave you a thumbs up! That said "matted" is 'matter'......matted is in reference to a mat (rug) and its weave.
AS ALWAYS BRIAN YOUR VIDEO VERY INFORMATIVE..
AIRPOWER is of course important BUT without support and follow up by BOOTS ON THE GROUND they cannot succeed..
When Putin told them that he can manufacture whatever weapons they have and even better than what they manufacture they didn’t believe it. I think they now 25:46 believe him. We pray for peace everyday may God have mercy on us.
The western countries, believes they are god. We all can see how useless they are.
then why does he say he can beat the us and would have to launch nukes and end the world.
@@MyNeowolf He didn't say that. Your talking idiots on the idiot box told you he said that.
The west needed a reminder that they are a fictional power, not a real power-not peer to peer.
@@MyNeowolfУ Вас есть выслушать полностью то, что сказал Путин, а не вырезанные и скомпонованные фразы?
Greetings from Africa, Brian! 🌍 🙌
Thank you so much for your excellent update 👏😀
I remember at the start of Gulf War 2 we couldn’t even use our Apache helicopters and A-10’s because they would get shot down.
All US warplanes cannot land in sand blown deserts that the Middle East is very well known. US warplanes need a speck free airfield to have their peak combat performance.
it was still more like blitzkreig 2
Uh, yeah, no shit. This is common sense, these are aircraft that are not designed to be used in contested airspace. Same with the Russian Su-25, Mi-28, and Ka-52. This video has so many lies and misinformation.
I really appreciate Brian's analysis. High power & consistent, well evidenced. I learn a LOT.
Iraqi air defense systems were built by France and US got the blueprints, beforehand!
Still had a integrated AD. Tho as Yugoslavia showed it helps to have realistically trained SAM operators that know that surviving can be a victory in off its self Plus having spies at airbases and having a airforce who was on the wind down and heavily neglected its EW Capability. It’s also hard to hide in the dessert both Rommel and Monty knew of this in North Africa in 1942. I find it kinda wild that citing the Vietnam war as a case for what will happen to the USA when that was 60 years ago. The reality is no one really knows who has the Ace.
@kekistanimememan170 having a system that is available to your enemy is worse than not having one to begin with! All the resources and man power are sitting ducks for smart bombs and missiles!
@kekistanimememan170 There was no spying involved with hitting F117,my best friend was in a company that brought down one and hit several of Invisible " F117 and he told me that they could see them from the get,just couldn't fire without assistance of radars for obvious reasons! Lockheed came up with excuses to save the Stealth scam program! I am 64 years old American-Serbian born in Belgrade and although I was in NYC at the time, all my friends were involved in Air defense systems because we went to same engineering school!
@@kekistanimememan170 I would much rather have to integrated AD than integrated AD for which my enemy has the blueprints of and known how it works in the minutest of details.
The best security works even when the adversary knows how it works. Obscurity can help, but your adversary is likely to know where stuff is and what it is. Satellites aren't that expensive these days.
The issue Iraq had was the coalition using stealth planes to take out major communication hubs and the unearthly number of cruise missiles that are hard to detect and counter at best and harder with ground based surveillance only. For that you need eyes in the sky, preferably really good ones which Iraq didn't have. Russia did until Ukraine kept shooting their a50s down.
That and the fact that NATO had solid dedicated wild weasel capabilities that neutered what was left of the air defence system. Something Russia apparently does not have.
Thank you so much Brian for the long time your are educated us about a lot things.
In 2003, US simply bribed Iraqis not to fight. Literally pay to win. In 1991, US did get a jump on Iraqis with stealth bombers, but by 1999 Serbs figured it all out. And even in Iraq, their army only lost 50k dead, and maintained enough combat ability to put down rebellious US encouraged.
If 50k dead decided the war, Ukraine would have been done years ago. Different kind of war.
Wait USA bribed Iraqi soldiers to not fight? That's actually so pathetic of America it's funny. Honestly American's will do anything to get out of a fight. They always want others to fight for them.
US starved Iraqis with sanctions for 10 years… it would have been impossible to invade Iraq otherwise!
I can imagine bro
So the Americans have such an 'Air superiority', Naval Superiority and sophisticated weapons, but the Vietnamese, with non of the above fought them to a standstill and the Americans eventually withdrew from Vietnam. Talk of a yapping mouth bigger than the head! The West has been contemplating a No-Fly Zone over West Ukraine, just why have they develope 'cold feet'? There was ho hesitation in the case of Libya, where they knew they were bullying a small third Word country!
The US didn't have anti air defense weaponry until the last years of Vietnam. Also 60k US deaths to 1-3 million Vietnamese casualties.
@@rafaelsoto6109 So What's so 'heroic' about such a massacre, and a massacre it was, seeing that over 90% of those Vietnamese casualties were civilians? You used Napalm and agent orange (a Chemical weapon) on civilians and yet did not win! Just shows how feekle you have always been. Which is why you Americans never go to any war alone! you have to drag in a whole string of countries along. Do you remember your disgracefull attempt to "rescue' American hostages in Iran in 1979? Being an American only Operation, you made a 'royal disaster' of it, defeated yourselves and beat a hasty retreat, all by yourselves, while the Iranians were yawning in their sleep, only to see the wreckages of your disaster the next day!
Another problem with Vietnam was that the government was doing the strategizing and not the US military. When we went into Iraq Schwarzkopf wanted, and was allowed, to formulate strategy and he told Congress to stay out of it or you’ll have another Vietnam.
The VCs threw rocks at the French and US troops. First, the French departed. In 1975, the USA called it a day. The VCs had a few MIGs, and a few patrol crafts along the Mekong Delta. That's all they had, against US carrier strike groups.
@@rafaelsoto6109 The first US antiaircraft cannon was introduced in 1911. The US has had 40mm antiaircraft ship based guns as well since WWII. Their first radar aimed AAA gun, the Skysweeper was introduced in 1953. Vietnam didn't start until 1955.
And they lost Vietnam - to a force that was not peer, including over 2200 airframe losses despite the casualties ratio. When they fought peer level opponents in WWII they took over a million casualties including over 407k deaths despite fighting in a coalition and being the absolute last nation into the war. The US hasn't fought a single war against a peer level opponent in its entire history. Not even the Civil War where it fought against itself, because there were native Americans fighting on both sides, there were Canadians fighting, there were European logistics and resupply and yes, there was even the diplomatic help of Catherine of Russia as well as a battle group of Russian warships that patrolled the East Coast between North Carolina and New York preventing the Confederates from attacking the Union by sea. There's really no way around the facts.
I can see why the Duran loves you sooo much SIR and I am saying that with RESPECT,for you are not just a reporter you are a teacher of military 411 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🔥🔥🔥😇
Unfortunately we have too many 'experts' who have,t a clue !!!!!
The party is over for the US, now it's time to pay the bill. Good luck with that.
People just don't get it. US is more powerful than Russia, China, Iran combined
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@@Chris-yg6lo Wishful thinking, huh? 😂
Thank you
The USA has a superiority complex. It’s like me boxing up an 8 year old kid, thinking I’m a big man now and then trying to tell Tyson Fury how to box
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US is a real mess of a politics, contradicting itself both in inner and outer politics.
Finally the truth about Russian air power is coming out. I've had a full decade of brain washed fan boys. Believing every word of how fantastic US aircraft compared to Russia's. Russia's military aircraft are fantastic, combined with their air defences. They're capable of giving Western forces a lot more than a bloody nose.
Oh yeah, and especially with their air defenses. There's a rather concerning fact that MiG-31 interceptors can basically snipe 90% of Western aircraft beyond their (Western aircraft) range. Russia appears to have very good ground attack aircraft though, I'd argue better than their Western counterparts. Not to mention helicopters. The KA-52 is better than any Western contemporaries. I won't lie, the AH-1Z and UH-60 are good helicopters and I really like their aesthetic, but they are lacking when compared to Russian counterparts (maybe not the UH-60, but the AH-1Z certainly). The AH-64 is good with hellfire missiles, but it's much older than the KA-52, and far less adaptable.
I read your articles and still watch your videos. You do your research well and you are also a gifted speaker. Keep up.
Good article Brian ! 👏
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Sir, HATS of to your telecast
Russia, we are with you. Thank you Brian for spreading the knowledge.
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DO NOT STOP OVER WHAT YOU'RE DOING. WE SEE YOU AND YOU'RE DOING A GOOD JOB.
The links provided to back up your thesis are much appreciated. Subscribed.
Brian, your comments are always informative, well documented and on point. Keep up the good work!
A direct war U.S. - Russia would turn tactical nuclear within 72 hours, and then all bets are off on the strategic level. Realistically neither Russia, nor the U.S. ever planned to wage a full scale conventional war against each other. The conventional forces were always only designed to go against the other side's proxies.
How you would even do that? Russia is not going to NA to invade, if US tries fighting expeditionary war in Europe, much less Pacific, it will get crushed not even reaching Russian border. I don't think conventional is possible in direct confrontation scenario, only all in.
@@alexmashkin863 70% of the population would cease to exist if that happens
When it's all done and said, will the USA ever pay for its crimes against humanity?
They have no intention of paying and they could not, even if they wanted to. They owe 35 trillion dollars and the money printing is going to end soon.
You can't get blood out of a turnip. The US is bankrupt and the military is in shambles. The US doesn't have much longer to survive. Trump can't, nor can anyone save this sinking ship.
Thank you!
After watching and listening to this video, many still do not understand the main message, a modern conflict between 2 countries with similar anti-aircraft capabilities neutralize each other by taking the war to the ground, with soldiers without air support, heavy artillery support will depend on the capacity. of production of each country (drones make this task difficult), transforming the front into a trench war, reducing offensive operations to hunting with drones, artillery, vehicles, anti-aircraft systems, taking into account the advanced electronic warfare measures and interference, this will be super difficult to do in the future. Welcome to modern wars
To the best of my knowledge, the US NavysTop Gun program was started in response to the heavy losses the US endured during the Vietnam war.
Russia is not iraq
Someone forgot to tell the Americans
@KevinCleghorn says who? your fake news? remember america took 20yrs in Afghanistan and still got beat. russia is just griding down ukraine and russia already have what they wanted which is southern ukriane. they aren't looking to take over whole country. you need to stop watching your fake mainstream fake news
@KevinCleghorn sigh. You can't still be this stupid after 2 years......can you?
The Soviet was the best in air defense technology and all the countries that inherited Soviet air defense systems are tough to obtain air superiority over them like Vietnam, Ukraine, North Korea, China, including Russia. Air superiority is a myth when you take on formidable militaries not terrorists with machine guns.
It isn't. It just takes time and skill, but Russia never, not even in principle, practiced for it. RuAF even in Cold War was to argument Ground Based Air Defence and support frontline and "not loose" - no western style air dominance and deciding campaing through air warfare was in the works. Whole idea for Soviet/Russian aviation was enable groudn forces to do their thing; pretty much reverse of the West.
@@piotrd.4850Always some random "expert" in the comment sections
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Bozo
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@@piotrd.4850 LOL time and skill, Get off your computer games you silly little kid. Here's the daily dumb comment award goes to you. LOL!
@@jihigh482 He's right though
That's why the middle east is as far as we go.
I'm glad to see someone else out there with sense ❤
Great article once again Brian!
I've always known that the Russian weapons and warbirds are way cheaper and way better than the West😂😂😂
When a man's job requires him specifically to not understand something, it is very difficult to convince him of it.
Apparently you don't understand a multitude of things. He has a fine grasp of things if you followed legitimate web sites.
The US spent the entirety of the GWOT fighting nations with literally no air defense capabilities. They've had one helluva rude awakening in Ukraine 😂😂😂
The U.S. doesn't play nice with others. Never has.
When she's bent over taking BRICS in the arse, she'll start to listen.
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The key point is that Russian missiles still got through to destroy this Trillion Dollar gigantum AD . The fact becomes that Russian missiles are by and large unstoppable!
Thus the first part of the usual NATO strategy was successfully achieved by Russian's military.
Which is to nullify or seriously degrade the enemies AD systems and expose airfields and key strategic targets.
Yeah - it had taken foreign help, almost three years instead of hours, and has not contributed to strategic / political victory. Russia uses whole 2003 Iraqi War consumption of JDAM equivalents per month (laudable) to conquer ruins of some Ukrainian hicksvilles ( lol xD ).
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@@piotrd.4850 You don´t stop the bullshit......ahahahahahaah
@piotrd.4850 it didn't take foreign help. Russia destroyed Ukraine's AD on their own.
As far as conquering territory, you're stuck, just as most westerners are, on maneuver warfare. Russia is annihilating Ukraine's military. All those FABs are doing an amazing job. The fact that Russia is able to do that, for MONTHS, is beyond western comprehension. Those "hickvilles" were of vital importance to the crash test dummies of Ukraine.
20 years of occupation by the "best" military on the planet. Oh, wait, who's in charge of Afghanistan? 20 years and the US couldn't beat a bunch of goat herders.
An honest person about this topic, how refreshing. I like that.
War is a hellish stupid way to settle differences.
If it doesn't make sense, follow the money.
Dead men don't debate
True, that is why it is usually reserved for last. The breaking point was Ukraine trying to host NATO troops in it's territory. The jig is simply up and Russia ain't having none of it. 2014 Euromaidan and Donbass war? this is stupid but sure.... Minsk 2 agreement. Ukraine allowing the British to make a military port in Odessa and the US to base planes with tactical nuke capabilities in Ukraine? hell no
Especially the article's conclusion is very well put.
Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity.
In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas.
If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy.
Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements.
Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time
Russia's national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns.
20th September, 2021. Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO
NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter).
We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.
Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster?
Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest.
Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland.
Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed.
Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens-theirs will hide in the basements”.
Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it.
Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country.
Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list.
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list.
There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence).
The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present.
Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave.
Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P.
The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims).
The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter.
I have done a lot of research and it took a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion.
I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written.
Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.
Thank you for your service from all analphabets, interested in these matters.
Thank you for another insightful report.
What would the US know about winning a war, Korea…no, Vietnam…no, Bay of Pigs…no, Iraq….no, good grief.
Ha ! US stinks at war, they fight for Halliburton and Exxon- Mobile & get their asses handed to them
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The globalists wanted to make a fool out of Russia. But instead, the globalists ended up making fools of themselves. Let that be a lesson.
Air superiority was only used against nations with no or little air defence.. this is not the case Russia have means to shoot them down .. or intercepts them ..
Without air power the US would've never made it out of Vietnam n Korea. I'm pretty sure Russia could've done the same US did to Iraq
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They don't even use pallets for logistics.
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They’ll say anything to ship old f-16s to natoKraine. UkraiNato is about to be unburdened by what has been
Thank you for your work
The narrative on Vietnam is all about K/D ratios that demonstrated US dominance in air power. History Channel plays right into this. The narrative is 'we may have lost the land war but we totally dominated in the air'. Well we also had a higher K/D ratio on the ground. We still retreated.
So Vietnam was truly a fool's errand (sorry Vets, not my fault). We lost a lot of troops and airmen and ran away. And the only consolation prize is 'but at least we got a lot of Charlie!' Kudos.
Yeah. Anyone who says the United States hadn't lost the Vietnam War is coping hard. We gained nothing from it, well, aside from losses.
Thank you Brian...
Brave and Brilliant journalist Brian
Air power isn't the main decisive factor how to win conventional war. Not to mention attrition war especially against similar capable opponent. They better realise now otherwise
It usually is
Against rice farmers and goat herders. Yes, it usually is.@@nomercynodragonforyou9688
Don't bother, they will find out the hard way 😂
If this was true why are Russian puppets so aggressively pushing the fab3000 propaganda. Why is Ukraine crying so hard about them….
Air power is irreplaceable.
Not the main factor but its pretty darn important. However there is a main problem with the approach. The US is a naval-air power and in that 2 category, they are the number one. Russia on the other hand, is a land power and in that category, they are the best and the largest. You cannot defeat them on land, their landmass alone makes it impossible. However to occupy a country, you need land forces and a lots of it. Russia knew this, thats why they invested so much in air defenses, especially mobile air defense platforms so the enemy cannot achieve air superiority over their land units.
Russia entered Syria with a few dozen Aircraft and in 3 months flew more combat missions than Israelistan and it's vassals had in over 2 years they were astounded and terrified at the reliability of Russias aircraft. They well know their aircraft are vastly inferior.
According to ChatGPT the US losses over Vietnam were around 2500 airplanes. Helicopters not counted.
Did you see the news about the first US female fighter pilot involved in air-to-air combat? She shot down a drone!
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Great! What a trooper! When does she go from simulators to actual planes?
Thanks Brian , more high quality content . We hold our breath while watching the collapsing US empire in real time. I know that I am getting an education when I check your videos.
Excellent writing, Brian!
Imperial media doctrine changed twice in the past 2 decades.
Around 2000 "Opinionated Journalism" was introduced and propagated as proper journalism.
Around 2020 "Perception is Reality in Journalism" was introduced and propagated.
The idea behind the latter most extreme doctrine is, that reality doesn't matter what matters is the mind model of people.
It is a Silicone Valley invention stemming from ideas like augmented reality and metaverse.
The idea is that reality can be completely replaced for most people, and only a few need to form an interface to reality in order to physically feed and house the "meta verse" people living in an imaginary/perceived reality.
These extreme ideologized views of reality will not only lead to a bad awakening but also co-lead to the societal collapse of the US empire and its key colonies, the EU, Japan, and South Korea.
I'm surprised they don't mention Vietnam much, technically it is an example how a smaller nation, with sufficient support, can outlast and defeat a much stronger nation.
Thank you for your insightful analysis🙏👍🙏
The US + UK together has tried but was not be able to defeat the Houthies, a bunch of guys in sandals with Ak47 and some simple rockets. That shows their capabilities in 2024. And the Patriot system for Air defense, production capacity is 550 per year as you said, but they fire 2 missiles to every target. That means, even if the have a 100 percent sucess rate, 275 targets per year is the limit. On the other hand, the Patriot system is over 40 years old......
Excellent points my friend, the US military capabilities are being exposed worldwide, they suck at war. If Ukraine was serious about winning they should consider calling the Taliban
Good job Brian! Keep it up. Regards, US veteran living along side you!