Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:50PM
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> the order to avoid targeting civilians implies restraint on use of indiscriminate bombing
This doesn't explain Russia's lack of air superiority as well as the hypothesis proposed by the paper on which this article is based [1]: a lack of precision munitions, the risk of Ground Force SAMs causing friendly fire due to bad coordination between the branches and a lack of pilot training leading to those planes not being battle ready.
This doesn't explain Russia's lack of air superiority as well as the hypothesis proposed by the paper on which this article is based [1]: a lack of precision munitions, the risk of Ground Force SAMs causing friendly fire due to bad coordination between the branches and a lack of pilot training leading to those planes not being battle ready.
[1] https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentar...