Majority of Russian and Ukrainian air losses are also due to Manpads. Nobody gets shot down by semi-static long range SAM these days because everyone with a brain will either SEAD or terrain-mask them.
Manpads are ambush weapons that are hard to defend against, even with modern DIRCM
>>65213301 and one would have thought that the EODAS was made for exactly this kind of shit, with that "totally open cockpit VR vision" and all that...
Not the first time lockmart jews scammed its customer.
>>65213210 Forced Retirement. Two ejections in a month in combo with the bullshit related to both is probs going to end with the airforce forcing him out.
>>65213361 Pilots are expensive to train and the first shootdown was fratricide not his fault in any way. They will probably push him into something without a seat, tankers, transports etc.