{"id":406863,"date":"2022-12-03T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=406863"},"modified":"2022-12-03T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T15:23:11","slug":"neither-russia-nor-ukraine-can-control-the-air-over-ukrainian-battlefields-but-their-aircraft-are-still-finding-ways-to-operate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/neither-russia-nor-ukraine-can-control-the-air-over-ukrainian-battlefields-but-their-aircraft-are-still-finding-ways-to-operate","title":{"rendered":"Neither Russia nor Ukraine can control the air over Ukrainian battlefields, but their aircraft are still finding ways to operate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian Su-35 downed by Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region in April. Press service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff\/Handout via REUTERS The Russian air force&#8217;s performance in Ukraine has fallen well short of expectations before the war. Neither the Russia air force nor Ukrainian forces can control the skies over Ukraine, however. Despite the heavily contested airspace, aircraft from both sides are still operating over Ukraine. When Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, no one would have expected the Russian Aerospace Forces would be so ineffective. On paper, Russia had a highly competent air force composed of hundreds of fourth-generation fighter jets as well as attack and transport helicopters. But Russian aircraft have never able to achieve air superiority over Ukraine. There are several reasons for Russia&#8217;s failure in the air, including inadequate training and poor situational awareness, but Ukraine&#8217;s air force has also fought valiantly against a bigger and more advanced adversary, flying combat sorties even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You have to adjust quickly to the realities of the operational environment. Otherwise you won&#8217;t survive for long,&#8221; a naval aviator told Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}