re: #259 John Hughes

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.

In my case, I blame Early-Onset Stupidity. I was probably remembering one of the Russian accusations that a US drone had provided targeting data to the Ukrainians during an attack on a Russian ship. It’s been a very confusing two weeks.