So some stupid things you said is not enough for and you want to continue humilate yourself? How is Russian airforce badly trained compared to Western airforce? Did Russian airforce lose any plane to 50 years old short range SAM's proving how superior Israeli airforce is? Oh, im waiting for links
do you have reading comprehensions?
"Due to the lack of widespread night-vision equipment, it mostly operated during daytime, while the Georgian Air Force was able to operate at night as well."
"roblems in suppressing enemy air defences (partly due to lack of training in this role), meant that the Russian air force was unable to provide direct support to its own troops."
"Even by 11 August, Russia had not completely achieved air dominance, and the Georgian aircraft were still attacking Russian troops and Tskhinvali"
"Moscow Defense Brief strongly criticised the performance of the Russian Air Force, saying that there was a total absence of co-operation between the army and air force,"
Sorry to dissapoint you, but Russia lost some old and outdated planes to relatively modern long range SAMs. NATO on other hand lost planes(super hi-tech and stealth!!) to 50 years old short range Soviet relics
Russian arforce never in their history displayed such incompetence
"Analysts at Moscow Defense Brief give a higher estimate, saying that the overall losses of Russian Air Force in the war amounted to seven aircraft, while Anton Lavrov lists 6 Su-25s, 2 Su-24s and 1 Tu-22M as lost"
su-24's and tu-22m isn't some old and outdated plane, infact the TU-22M is a supersonic bomber.
the SU-25's where lost to anti aircraft fire, not SAM's. the SAM's that where present in the battle of Tshkinvali from Georgian side was BUK M1 and 9K33 Osa. how are they modern long range SAM's? they are nowhere close to today's quality.
they only lost 2 planes of several thousand sortes above Serbia. one bomber and one F-16, the complete loss is somthing around 5 if i remember correctly. and that compared to the sorties flown above Serbia, who had much better SAM's than Georgia is still a embarasement for Russia.
whether its big or not that have nothing to do with your claim that Russian airforce operated only over Ossetia
and your claim that Tbilisi is in the completely other side of Georgia, when it infact is only about one hour's driving from the war zone. Tbilisi is in the southeast towards Azerbaijan and Armenia.