>

A lot of russ8an jets are pretty equivalent.
It's down to doctrine and decision making
What I find really strange is that we are back to Tanks and Trenches. 
I remember chatting with my US Mil roommates, and the Airforce dude would always brag AF get the most girls and Army/Marine/Navy guys are just sitting ducks in a future war. 
And here are Ukraine and Russia reenacting WW1.5. >

Airforce dude never fought a military with anti-air defense. >

Iraq had one of the world's most powerful air defense nets. The US destroyed it from the air. >

Iraq was fighting modern US aircraft, Ukraine is shooting down 20-30-year-old Soviet planes >

That’s not true in the least bit. Ukraine has downed plenty of modern Russian planes >

It was an overstatement. But even modern Russian planes don't come close to US aircraft, or Ukraine would have been in so much more trouble.