Well, as Sweden replaces their older Gripens with new ones I am sure they will let Ukraine get started training with and using the older ones as soon as possible.
A great way to get actual combat experience without risking too much is running shahed/ground attack missile interception missions deep behind friendly lines so in that sense Russia is already providing a great training environment for Ukrainian pilots.
I think this is one of the underappreciated negatives to Russia’s strategy of flooding Ukrainian skies with targets, they are training a ton of Ukrainians to be very good at shooting shit out of the sky and that will continue to backfire for decades on Russia.
Are the Russian pilots getting as much practice? How could they? Russia’s economy is in large part focused on pumping out target training drones for Ukraine to shoot down, there is no way they can be providing their pilots and AA defense crews with as thorough and extensive training, it would be impossible materially for them. It is only recently that Ukraine has begun hitting targets with flying bombs all over Russia, but they will never provide the equivalent training opportunity because Ukraine isn’t trying to brute force terrorize a civilian population with indiscriminate flying bomb strikes into surrender.
Russia thinks it is proving to the world that manned systems are obsolete and their industrial capacity to create mass terror civilian-targeting flying bombs trumps everything, but they are really just providing Europe with the next generation of air defense training at the expense of Russia’s future.
I have a feeling Gripens will be entering the picture sooner than this timeline indicates due to that fact.
Says some training was done, but it sounds still like a complex plane to fly.
Well, as Sweden replaces their older Gripens with new ones I am sure they will let Ukraine get started training with and using the older ones as soon as possible.
A great way to get actual combat experience without risking too much is running shahed/ground attack missile interception missions deep behind friendly lines so in that sense Russia is already providing a great training environment for Ukrainian pilots.
I think this is one of the underappreciated negatives to Russia’s strategy of flooding Ukrainian skies with targets, they are training a ton of Ukrainians to be very good at shooting shit out of the sky and that will continue to backfire for decades on Russia.
Are the Russian pilots getting as much practice? How could they? Russia’s economy is in large part focused on pumping out target training drones for Ukraine to shoot down, there is no way they can be providing their pilots and AA defense crews with as thorough and extensive training, it would be impossible materially for them. It is only recently that Ukraine has begun hitting targets with flying bombs all over Russia, but they will never provide the equivalent training opportunity because Ukraine isn’t trying to brute force terrorize a civilian population with indiscriminate flying bomb strikes into surrender.
Russia thinks it is proving to the world that manned systems are obsolete and their industrial capacity to create mass terror civilian-targeting flying bombs trumps everything, but they are really just providing Europe with the next generation of air defense training at the expense of Russia’s future.
I have a feeling Gripens will be entering the picture sooner than this timeline indicates due to that fact.
It’s a modern fighter jet…