Is the Russian Air Force Actually Incapable of Complex Air Operations? (Politik)

Reviewer, Samstag, 05.03.2022, 07:03 (vor 1387 Tagen) @ Reviewer

rusi.org

IMHO als Laie sehr interessanter Artikel (Lesedauer ca. 7 min). Der Autor weist auf die Vorläufigkeit seiner Einschätzung hin, und es ist sicherlich zu berücksichtigen, dass RUSI ein alteingessener britischer Think Tank ist.
Stand heute scheinen aber Fragen und mögliche Erklärungen nachvollziehbar.

The Only Currently Viable Explanation

While the early VKS failure to establish air superiority could be explained by lack of early warning, coordination capacity and sufficient planning time, the continued pattern of activity suggests a more significant conclusion: that the VKS lacks the institutional capacity to plan, brief and fly complex air operations at scale. There is significant circumstantial evidence to support this, admittedly tentative, explanation.

This explanation may yet prove to be false; the VKS may suddenly start mounting large-scale complex air operations comparable to those routinely conducted by NATO states and other modern air forces such as Israel. If does not, however, it will have profound implications for its potential combat power against Ukrainian forces in the coming weeks, and its value as a conventional deterrence tool against Western countries.