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In the rating of edition military aviation of our country in sixth place.
The Ukrainian air force got a list of the worst in 2018 Photo / defense Ministry
If you don’t have to think about the dominance in the sky, it’s likely you win this plane. In fact, in this matter, the air force, the United States can set an example. Their ground-based colleagues in the military can be sure that in case of a combat situation “death will not come from heaven.”
But it will do as long as the U.S. air force can drop bombs and shoot down enemy planes, as well as reinforcements on the battlefield. American allies can also be calm. But what will happen with ground forces, which do not have such a powerful air support? Many countries in the world whose army is less able to deal with such threats. Some countries actually send their army to the battlefield without thinking about airplanes. But if the firing strength of the air force for someone in the 21st century is not a priority, then this is a terrible mistake, writes Business Insider.
The publication has compiled a list of the air force, which in 2018 was the worst in the world. The reasons because of which countries got into it – bad training, lack of adequate funding and the indifference of governments to the safety of those who have to fly a terrible aircraft.
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Ukraine in this list, Business Insider was on the sixth place. The edition notices that in our country there is a “clear problem” with Russia. Not wanting to let the neighbor from its orbit, Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin uses every opportunity to cause a headache for Kiev. The Ukrainian side are not so many possibilities to not allow him to do so. Russian forces in the Donbas “operate with impunity”. And when the Ukrainian air force will get the opportunity to act, they either “kill a civilian, or bring down planes all the way back”.
The publication writes about the fact that Ukrainian planes sometimes fall down without the help of enemies. In particular, in 2018 Ukrainian su-27 crashed, during which he killed the Colonel of the air forces of the National guard of the United States Seth Nehring. The plane crashed when the pilot was introduced to the American counterpart with the capabilities of the su-27. Business Insider notes that this is not the only accident.
“National Interest believes that all of these accidents the result of poor aircraft, poor training or too cocky pilot. The truth may be that the problem is in the combination of all three reasons,” the article says.
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The main problem of the Ukrainian air force publication called the obsolescence of the aircraft, which was inherited from the Soviet Union. They are easy prey for modern rockets of a class “earth-air” of Russian forces in the Donbas. Therefore, according to Business Insider, the fact that Ukraine together with Crimea lost 45 MiG-29, maybe the best from some point of view.
In the three worst in the world, the publication has included Saudi air force (third place) for the blatant inaccuracy of the attacks, North Korea (second place) with her aircraft during the Korean war and Syria (the first place). The last aircraft shot down all sides of the Syrian war. And once the pilot of the Syrian air force even used its military MiG-21 to escape to Jordan and ask for asylum there.