{"id":120071,"date":"2024-09-04T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/russian-air-force-fighter-fleet-down-25-percent-ukraine-invasion\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:00:12","slug":"why-the-russian-air-force-fighter-fleet-may-be-down-25-since-ukraine-invasion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=120071","title":{"rendered":"Why The Russian Air Force Fighter Fleet May Be Down 25% Since Ukraine Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    In March 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/2024\/03\/28\/russias-air-force-is-hollowing-itself-out-more-air-defense-can-help\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Defense News<\/a> ran an article saying that the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/russian-air-force\/\">Russian Air Force<\/a> (VKS) could be down to less than 75% of its prewar strength. Still, the Russian Air Force is still large and powerful (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/russia-launches-barrage-drones-missiles-ukraine\/\">it just launched perhaps the largest stand-off missile strike in history<\/a>). While guesswork and uncertainty abound, some things are certain: the Russian Air Force has failed to secure air superiority over Ukraine beyond the front line, and in the last few years, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/analysis-why-russia-su-35-fighter-jets-trouble-finding-buyers-even-before-ukraine\/\">almost no one has purchased Russian fighter jets<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Air Force may be hollowing itself out from the inside faster than Ukraine is destroying it from the outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,628,412,3434,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-russian-air-force","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120073,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120071\/revisions\/120073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}