Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Rus Captures Chasov Yar District, Ukr Retreats; Biden Macron Tense Talks: US/EU States No Troops Ukr" video.

  1. 54:45 On the subject of the US being able to overwhelm the Russian in an air war. I, like you am not a military expert, however, that does not preclude my having an opinion. The Russians have a lot of ballistic missiles, against which the West has but poor defences. A US air war would require well maintained airfields, which I think would be rapidly and efficiently denied to them by Russian missiles. That would mean that the US 'planes would have to operate from US (British?) aircraft carriers,which would be vulnerable to Russian submarines and , probably, ballistic missiles too. There is also the question of Russian anti-aircraft defences as well. How extensive they are and how effective I do not know but they would be an extra difficulty. Penultimately, there is the Russian airforce, which while I read is rather small, I don't know how small and whether the people who say it is small know what they are talking about. However, it has some pretty advanced 'planes and expert pilots. Then there is the question of how this air war by the West would be fuelled? I imagine that there are fairly limited stocks of aviation fuel in Europe and what there is, would be vulnerable to Russian ballistic missiles. In any case it would be neccessary to land most aircraft to refuel them and even if aerial refueling were possible, the refuelling aircraft have to land to tank up and if the airfields are damaged that is going to be difficult too. In any case 'planes have to land for servicing, replenishing weaopons and for the pilots to sleep. that needs good runways. Extra supplies would, I imagine, have to come by ship, running the gauntlet of the Russian submarines. Finally, if it looked as though the Russians were losing, I do not suppose the Chinese would stand idly by and watch them go down to defeat and they have a very large airforce already, which is growing rapidly. In addition, there is the question of the supply of weapons? Does the US have the stocks of air-air missiles and other ammunition it would need? Or is it in the same position as it seems to be with artillery munitions?
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