Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
It is not at all clear to me what difference more aircraft would make to Ukranian forces:
My thoughts too. I reckon it would only offer them very marginal advantages, and then only for a short period of time. To be honest it may be better for them if the skies were essentially clear of their airborne assets (drones aside) to give their AD crews a nice clear field of fire (i.e if anything flies, it dies).
Given the battle is essentially going to be an artillery duel to the death, anything the west could provide in terms of counter battery fire would be uber helpful e.g. the SPIKE system we used in Afghanistan.