re: #77 Killgore Trout
What do the folks at Aviationist have to say about Ukrainian capabilities? I’m assuming the Russians will fuck them up quickly but I’m just guessing.
Not much.
An interesting image, showing a fully armed Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 has been published on russianplanes.net.
Taken, on Mar. 1 by Andrey Rakul, at an undisclosed location (possibly, Mirgorod Air Base, the airbase hosting the only Ukrainian Air Force Flanker Squadron), it shows Su-27 “45 Blue” armed with 6 Vympel R-27 missiles (NATO reporting name AA-10 Alamo-C) semi-active-radar homing extended-range air-to-air missiles and 4 Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer), a configuration adopted for Combat Air Patrols (CAPs) established by Kiev after the Russian invasion of Crimea.