Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
Has that really been the case? There has been so little air-war that I am not sure any conclusions can be drawn.
We won't know for sure. You can only look at the result. And the result of a theoretically completely overwhelming Russian Air Defence against an Air Force that was already tiny by all standards at the beginning of the war is not exactly flattering. And the effectiveness to protect against precision Artillery Rockets appears dismal.That may have various reasons, but at the end what matters is in the field, not high gloss brochures and impressive paper capabilities. And there are pretty exactly zero indications that it is really effective.