Re: It's almost as though polls and statistics had never been invented... Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on June 27, 2023, 1:54 am, in reply to "Re: It's almost as though polls and statistics had never been invented..."
"interesting point about the intakes..." -From the Horses mouth. RUSI is the oldest and most prestigious military think tank in the UK: founded by the Duke of Wellington no less, so it seems they can't even take in practical sense from their own experts: "The F-16 has a large air intake under the nose that "sucks everything from the ground directly into it," Justin Bronk, an air-warfare analyst for Britain's Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) think tank said during a recent episode of the Geopolitics Decanted podcast. "So F-16s typically require very clean, very well-maintained air bases." "You would have to do a lot of work to get those Ukrainian, old Soviet-pattern runways to a clean enough state to use an F-16 without high risk of foreign object debris going in and damaging the engines," Bronk said. In addition, a lot of Ukrainian airfields are too short to be used by a fully loaded F-16. "So you'd be looking at resurfacing work on runways and potentially extension work, all of which is highly visible" to Russia's satellites as well as to sources Moscow has on the ground, Bronk added..." https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-may-spot-ukrainian-bases-preparing-for-f16s-expert-says-2023-4?r=US&IR=T
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