Author: Rainbow Kursk
Recently, the Ukrainian media published a latest war report of the Ukrainian Air Force, saying that as of now, the Ukrainian Air Force (including fighters and ground air defense systems) has attacked and shot down 74 Russian fixed-wing fighters, 86 helicopters, and 7 drones, eliminating a total of 167 Russian fighters!
This war report made people's blood boil, and they felt that the Ukrainian army was going to destroy the rhythm of the Russian Air Force, or it was already in Moscow!
Photo: War report of the Ukrainian Air Force on March 13.
If, as the Ukrainian Air Force's war report wrote, then why should Ukraine ask NATO for help in setting up a no-fly zone over Ukraine?
Such a powerful Ukrainian air force can basically fight the Russian Air Force back to its hometown!
In fact, although the Ukrainian Air Force has not been completely wiped out, there are very few aircraft capable of combat taking off. In addition to the TB-2 UAV also has a certain combat effectiveness, the manned fighter recently appeared in the Russian war report is a Su-25 strong strike aircraft shot down yesterday, the Su-25 strong strike aircraft mainly carry out ground strikes, and do not have the ability to fight in the air or intercept combat.
Image: Shot down Su-25 strike aircraft, the Ukrainian Air Force logo is very eye-catching.
The fighters in the hands of the Ukrainian Air Force are mainly Su-27 fighters and MiG-29 fighters. In the early days of the war, we were able to see occasional air battles between Russian and Ukrainian fighters, and now there are basically no Ukrainian fighters. Moreover, Ukraine's strong demand for NATO to provide it with fighter jets is also proof that the air superiority combat force of the Ukrainian Air Force has been lost.
So is the Ukrainian Air Force no longer capable of combat?
Of course not, the Ukrainian Air Force also has surface-to-air missiles and other anti-aircraft firepower, such as the S-300 long-range air defense missile system is in the hands of the Air Force, this advanced long-range air defense missile against some Russian fighters is still very lethal, plus the "beech", "stinger", "arrow" 10 and other short- and medium-range air defense missile systems, through the ground and air to shoot down some Russian fighters is also capable.
Before that, 2 Russian Su-34 "Platypus" fighter-bombers have been shot down, which can be said to be the glory of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile force!
Picture: Ukrainian S-300 long-range anti-aircraft missile system hidden in the jungle.
However, with the change of air superiority, coupled with the consumption of missile stocks, the recent Firepower of the Ukrainian Air Force's anti-aircraft missile units has become weaker and weaker, in addition to the shoulder-fired missiles such as the "Stinger" provided by the West, it can also achieve some UAV and helicopter combat results, and the Russian fighters flying away from the missile killing zone have begun to use more and more long-range precision-guided weapons to strike outside the defense zone, instead of driving fighter jets to launch rockets to "lick the ground", which makes the results of the Ukrainian Air Force's anti-aircraft missile units less and less!
Therefore, such a war report actually mainly plays some internal propaganda and encouragement effects, and has no practical analytical value!