{"id":144050,"date":"2024-10-26T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-russian-air-force-failed-air-superiority-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:00:12","slug":"why-the-russian-air-force-has-failed-to-secure-air-superiority-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=144050","title":{"rendered":"Why The Russian Air Force Has Failed To Secure Air Superiority Over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest surprises of the War in             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"52383\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\"  >Ukraine<\/a><\/span> is the Russian Air Force&#8217;s (VKS) inability to establish air superiority over Ukraine &#8211; something that, on paper, should have been possible. Many expected the Russian equivalent of the US shock and awe of the Gulf War (when much of         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030443\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iranian-air-force-eclectic-mix-dated-jets\/\" >the Iraqi Air Force mostly fled to Iran to escape destruction<\/a><\/span> &#8211; and those that didn&#8217;t were destroyed). Instead, the Ukrainians fought off the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"270146\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/russian-air-force\/\"  >Russian Air Force<\/a><\/span> in something that looked closer to the Battle of Britain &#8211; but how?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sustaining heavy losses after years of fighting (including wear and tear), the Russian Air Force has still not established air superiority.<\/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-144050","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\/144050","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=144050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144051,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144050\/revisions\/144051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}