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Mar 4 • 6 tweets • 1 min read

To be honest Twitter has graced us with some of the most beautifully terrible defense takes over the past 48 hours.

https://twitter.com/rephoulahan/status/1499740290650890241

https://twitter.com/rephoulahan/status/1499740290650890241

Apart from the fact that it’s logistically impossible and politically a terrible idea.

A-10s would get destroyed by the current Russian air defense systems present.

COIN ops have rotted the publics understanding of CAS over the past 30 years.

3 Russian SU-25s were knocked out in the past 48 hours. And that was primarily by Ukrainians with MANPADS

If you want to enforce a no fly zone, continue to give the Ukrainians the tools to knock out Russian aircraft, primarily MANPADS and maybe go rummaging around the eastern bloc countries for extra S-300 missiles.

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