Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
I'm kinda confused why Russia can't establish air superiority over Ukraine when Russia has 5th generation fighter planes.
I thought those were basically invisible to radar and can hit targets from behind the horizon.

Massive corruption means their Army and AF are also corrupted. Money that's supposed to go to supplying spare parts for tanks and planes, fuel, ammo, etc., instead goes into some oligarch's secret bank account. Remember those tanks running out of fuel at the beginning of the war?

Also, UA has basically got the entire West supplying it with whatever it needs. Still, that took time to put in place. On paper at least, if Russia had its shit together when they first attacked, it could have walked over Ukraine.