While Russian pilots were managing to support land operations in the south of Ukraine, they were doing so "without decisive operational effect," the British Ministry of Defense said in its daily intelligence update on Monday.

To compensate, Russia was sending adapted free-fall bombs into Ukrainian territory. However, these had "yet to demonstrate consistent accuracy," it added.

"Over the summer, Russian tactical combat aircraft have typically carried out over 100 sorties a day, but these are almost always restricted to operating over Russian-controlled territory due to the threat from Ukrainian air defenses," the update said.

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Neither Russia nor Ukraine has been able to gain air superiority in the war so far despite Russia's vastly larger air force. But a military expert previously told Insider that the "advantage is with defense."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On paper they're well equipped. But Russia is a country that basically operates on corruption, everyone is on the take, so by the time the resources finally get to the military personnel they've gone through several thieving hands and pretty much everything of value has disappeared. And you could say that many Western democracies are equally as corrupt, but they're not, they may skim a little off the top but they're not stupid enough to steal from their own military.

No one tells Putin this of course because they're terrified of him, so he starts operating on the assumption that the military have certain resources that are simply not present.