The Orlan-10 drone is a staple in Russia's operations along its contested border with Ukraine. TASS
Con Coughlin, The National: The US has 'lost air superiority', and that's bad news for Ukraine
With an estimated 100,000 Russian troops, backed by heavy armour and warplanes, said to be massing on Ukraine’s eastern border, there are understandable fears that the build-up might lead to the resumption of hostilities between the two countries.
An uneasy stalemate, punctuated by occasional bouts of fighting between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces, has settled on the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine since Russia launched its military offensive in 2014, which resulted in the capture and annexation of Crimea.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. Air Force never really had air superiority against the Soviet Union on its borders. Any incursion into Soviet Air Space would have been a suicide mission. Ditto with Russia today.
As for China. Good luck to the US Air Force in trying to penetrate their airspace today. Stealth planes or no stealth planes.
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The US overflew the Soviet Union for years. Lost only one aircraft doing so. We stopped not because we had to but the Intel from non-airbreathers was good enough to do so. The Soviets never tried it with us.
A German with a Cessna 172 landed in Red Square ...they tried but they didn’t get him either.
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