Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Mar 2 2024 05:24pm)

They've lost that amount of the last 2 weeks or so. Those numbers are significantly higher than "normal"

They have not lost this many fast jets in such a short period of time before.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 2 2024 10:35pm)

I don’t keep track but for many months Ukrainian media/military boasts about X amount of planes being shot down, literally on a weekly basis. Sorry, numbers have to make sense at some point. The Russians don’t have a bottomless pit of these.

Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Mar 2 2024 05:39pm)

You don't keep track but you do?

Since that second A50 went down around a dozen fast jets have gone down. In 2 weeks.

It's an extraotdinary amount. Even the Ukrainians have never claimed this many jets downed in such a short time.

Edit: Russia have hundreds of jets. They are not running out. But trying to operate with 800 jets when you originally had 900 becomes problematic. More wear on airframes, less parts, less pilots to rotate.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 2 2024 04:52pm)

No, I don’t keep track of every incredulous claim the Ukrainian military makes and catalogue it in some spreadsheet. I have seen them repeatedly claim Herculean numbers though, week after week, which if extended to a year, two years, results in some truly breathtaking numbers.

For example Zelensky recently said Ukraine’s armed forces lost 31k soldiers. His military and you and others like you months ago said that Russia lost over 300k people. You don’t see the breakdown in common sense in these two figures?

Quote (ofthevoid @ 2 Mar 2024 12:26)

Some of these weekly loss stats if annualized or over the span of two years and you get some wonky numbers where you scratch your head and ask do people really believe this nonsense.

Read an article and it put Russias Su-34 at 140. So let me get this right, since February 17tth they’ve lost 10 of them? And Ukraine has these types of Herculean loss porn stats every few weeks. At some point you have to ask yourself, how do they continue to have an air force if they are losing 5-10% every month. Common sense is in short supply amongst people wishing things into reality.

Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Mar 2 2024 11:39pm)

You don't keep track but you do?

Since that second A50 went down around a dozen fast jets have gone down. In 2 weeks.

It's an extraotdinary amount. Even the Ukrainians have never claimed this many jets downed in such a short time.

Edit: Russia have hundreds of jets. They are not running out. But trying to operate with 800 jets when you originally had 900 becomes problematic. More wear on airframes, less parts, less pilots to rotate.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 2 2024 10:52pm)

No, I don’t keep track of every incredulous claim the Ukrainian military makes and catalogue it in some spreadsheet. I have seen them repeatedly claim Herculean numbers though, week after week, which if extended to a year, two years, results in some truly breathtaking numbers.

For example Zelensky recently said Ukraine’s armed forces lost 31k soldiers. His military and you and others like you months ago said that Russia lost over 300k people. You don’t see the breakdown in common sense in these two figures?

Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Mar 3 2024 06:25am)

Your conflating and denying something that not even the Russians are really denying.

About a dozen fast jets and an A-50 in February.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 3 2024 12:00pm)

Share the source where the Russian military confirms these losses, because that’s what ‘not denying’ would look like.