re: #231 William Lewis

What we do have is AWACS, KC-10, B-52, etc circling very obviously just inside NATO airspace showing a very big stick that is very soft spoken…

Exactly. Which is why it would be stupid trying to fly vulnerable drones in contested airspace.

I get the feeling that multiple decades of fighting “non-peer” enemies has really confused some people.

“Just fly predators over Ukraine”, “a new rolling thunder with B52s”.

These things are only possible with air superiority. Which means taking out Russian SAM batteries in Belarus and Russia.

Ok, maybe some people want to do that, but if so they should be clear.