Their attrition rate in Syria has been abysmal. When was the last time China used air power? I don't remember as it was before I was born and I am almost 40 years old.
Your comments are factual wrong and comical. Russia lost about 16 aircraft in 3.5 years of a high intensity war.
NATO and its allies lost 113 aircraft in Afghanistan. In the first 3.5 years NATO lost 15 aircraft.
Many Russian aircraft that were lost were also either destroyed on the ground (at least 5+ aircraft were shelled) or they were lost due to bird strikes or mechanical problems. Russia also operates a lot of helicopters for close air support and extraction, they are more vulnerable especially in urban areas. If the French were in Russia's position of having thousands of troops on the ground and operating in urban areas with MANPADs and heavy machine guns while having to provide close air support I asure you the French would have lost many aircraft too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan
You act like we don't fly in contested airspace. Serbia, Iraq, Libya and Syria all had IADS that put our pilots at risk. We have the ability to project air power all over the globe and we use it. I am sorry we are not the US with unlimited resources, we have a set budget like India and we use it to great effect.
NATO, particularly the US pounded Iraq and Serbia with cruise missiles and were the spear force. Libya was again a joint operation and very much had an antiquated military.
French aircraft flew 7000km round trip over the Med facing the heavily defended coast. American aircraft came from their bases in the Gulf attacking from the lightly defended Eastern half of the country.
Russia never fired a single shot at any NATO forces in Syria. Don't miss stake Russia upsolding its agreement with the US/NATO of not attacking each other over Syria to mean the French somehow defeated Russia. If Russia wanted to they could have easily sunk French warships with their submarines, naval vessels and ground bases assets. The same thing holds true for French aircraft.
There wasn't American aircraft within 1000km of our strike package. The RAF Tornadoes shot their missiles right off of Cyprus and landed right back on it. We were the only ones playing tag with S-400 and we won. The only ones not detected by the latest and greatest Russian air defence from the mouth of their own MoD. That is what a decade of sniffing the trons gets you, the most comprehensive signals database in the world.
Right......Russia could not detect the French but French cruise missile were shot down. You are lost in translation or western press is miss quoting the Russian MOD.
Clearly the Scalp has shrapnel:
More parts of a French Scalp this. Notice the parts are well intact and have no fire damage which is typical of a missile that gets shot down.
we humiliated the Russian AD and conducted one of the longest strike missions in history.
Yea, the French really humiliated Russia.....more like the Russians were dying of laughter as the French cruise missiles were detected, shot down missed their targets and failed to even fire. The French are delusional.
The western media especially the French won't show how the Scalp was a flop. Try hitting a target other then dirt before trash talking.
The Russian ambassador had already threatened to respond to any attack against Syria. Russia couldn't respond because their S-400 could not detect our aircraft or stealth missiles.
Please, Russia aircraft cross paths with NATO aircraft over Syria often. The following image was taken from an SU-35 over Syria, its an F-22 picked up by the IRST system, the F-22 was probably not exactly hiding but the point is Russia has had the opertunity to shoot down even an F-22 as well as many other aircraft over Syria but chose not to. The French arnt special, you are mistaking Russia's patience for weakness/French machoism.
Who knows what type of missile it is, it detonated so it wasn't shot down.
Videos like this?
Or this?
It can't even detect missiles aimed at destroying itself much less Scalp EG miles away.
At this point you are just trolling. In the first video the Pantsir is empty (crew is standing outside) it was also out of munitions.
In the second video the again, the Pantsir is empty, with radar down and door open. You can't even do basic research before pitching your French BS.
Empty abandoned Pantsir that was hit in the video:
Pantsir in your second video had its radar off and was probably empty (open door) it was also Israeli air strikes and not French.
Stop derailing the thread by acting like a French salesman and bashing everyone else.
