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No one is using fighter jets in this war. Why? And everyone (who knows) knows this: The anti-air technology is too good to field a jet. It will just get shot down. so the Jets are now useless. so there’s no point in supporting useless jets. And no country is going to buy useless jets. But go on and make this political and not about some physical reality of our world.


Jets are massively used in this war-- to launch glide bombs and as roving defense against cruise missile threats. Ukraine is mostly doing the latter.

Yes, the amount of direct CAS and amount of direct air to air engagement is low.

Making an argument that "everyone knows" something without a basic effort to inform yourself is not great.


These jets are being used to shoot down the drones that Russia uses to destroy residential homes and civilian infrastructure.

Their loss will be felt both in lives, and in the cold of winter when homes are unheated.


That is extremely misguided take.

Fighter jets are extremely valuable, they are not a magic weapon though, but just one of the very important tool for the military to have.


Photos of a Mirage fighter jet shooting down a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile over Ukraine, published two days ago by the Ukrainian General Staff: https://x.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1898105929364648055


They are absolutely using 'fighter jets' for standoff munitions delivery. You probably have heard of Storm Shadow and JDAM-ER.

Even if this wasn't the case, they would still not be useless in that the firearms in your house aren't useless if you aren't actively shooting a home invader.




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