On a video last night, the Ukrainian army interviewed said that the Russian air force was so strong that the bones of the Ukrainian army trembled, otherwise the Ukrainian army would have driven the Russian army back to the border.
So why is the Russian Air Force powerful? Where's the power?
The weapons and equipment of the Ukrainian army are all supported by NATO and the United States, so how can the Ukrainian air force not be powerful?
It should be said that in modern warfare, if the aircraft and tanks are destroyed, the enemy will not be able to exert its prestige, and will only be beaten.
Ukrainian Air Force Tactical Transport Aircraft
But according to the Kuomintang-Communist War of the first half of the last century, this is not the case. The Xiaomi Plus rifle still won the aircraft tank cannon American armed to the teeth of the army.
Is the Mi-type Soviet fighter better than the US NATO fighter?
As a result, Ukrainian aircraft are All Soviet heritage, basically similar to the Russian army, but may be aging.
Ukrainian Air Force fighter
It appears that NATO and the United States did not support Ukrainian fighter jets as weapons.
According to the War Report of the Russian Ministry of Defense on April 4, so far, 125 Fighters of the Ukrainian Air Force have been destroyed.
The Ukrainian army said that the Russian air force was too powerful.
So how many fighters does the Ukrainian Air Force have?
On this issue, the Internet spread that the Ukrainian Air Force was originally the fourth largest air force in the world. There are even articles that say that the Ukrainian Air Force originally had 2,000 aircraft. As if exaggerated.
But this claim says the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union and explains that Ukraine did not have the ability to maintain such a large air force, which mentions that the mainland is the third largest air force in the world, and that Ukraine still has 400 fighters in 2014 and more than 200 fighters in 2019.
According to the above 2019 data, the Ukrainian warplane was almost beaten.
The coat of arms of the Ukrainian Air Force
How many fighters does the Russian Air Force have?
It is reported that the United States has 13,200 warplanes, which is incredibly far ahead of the world, more than 10,000 high in the first place, the second and third are all fractions of the United States. The second is 3800 Russian aircraft, and the third China also has more than 3,000, and the relevant articles say that there are more than 3200 aircraft.
The above may include helicopters. The fighters described in this article do not include helicopters.
As of April 4, the number of (armed) helicopters killed by the Russians was 91. If you count helicopters, the number is more than 200. The Russian side counts the dropped aircraft according to three types of statistics: fighter planes, helicopters and unmanned aircraft.
fighter plane
The Russian Air Force's most powerful fighter, probably the Su-57, is a Russian fifth-generation fighter, but western countries call it a fourth-generation fighter.
The Su-57 has a maximum take-off weight of 35 tons, a cruising speed of supersonic speed of 1450 kilometers per hour, a maximum speed of 2140-2600 kilometers per hour, a combat radius of 1 kilometer and 200 meters, and a combat load of up to 6 tons. Built-in 4 weapons compartments.
Russian Sky Army
To this day, the Ukrainian Air Force has a hundred fighters left.