jhungary
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Well, I don't think there are any Aircraft transfer, A-10 or Tucano. That would involve way too big of an logistic issue. You don't just need to train for it, you also need a chain of maintenance issue to come with, I mean it will take years to get a logistic hub set up for those, and even if they can be done, it would most likely be in inside Poland or Ukrainian neighbor, Ukrainian airfield is still too hot to be able to service those aircraft, I mean it would be pointless if you pull a Tucano or A-10 to a hanger then getting it bomb by Russian Drone or Missile.......They may not be able to do that in the air, but they can certainly do that when they are hangered for repair and service.It would take longer to train Ukrainian pilots on the A-10 as opposed to the Tucano.
The Tucano can be flown by civilians with a amateur pilots license. Plus, the Russians may see the A-10 as major escalation not so much with a crop duster.
If we look at how far US in Afghanistan before giving the Afghan Tucano, it would not be 5 or 6 years before the situation being stabilised. Which mean I just don't see any chance US or anyone will give Ukraine any air power
My previous reply is actually if we have to dream, dream big....
The Russians aren't flying combat sorties in Ukrainian air space so I think those A-10's are safe. Particularly if @jhungary has the right information from his sources that anti-air assets are forward deployed. I guess the only challenge is avoiding blue-on-blue incidents since Ukraine is operating a zoo of anti-air assets donated by the West.
Well, we need to give them enough AA first, and then once their air situation stabilised, then we can invest in advance platform.
At this point there are just not enough AA system to go around and protect everything.