One of Moscow’s fighter jets has been shot down by Ukrainian forces, according to a military blogger with links to the Russian air force. Another pro-Moscow milblogger said that the Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft had been downed by a Western-supplied F-16.

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    4 hours ago

    A10’s aren’t “good CAS”. They are a hog on logistics, expensive, the gun isn’t worth it anymore and the job can be done in 300 other, more efficient ways. It’s a white elephant and nothing more, there is a reason they are getting retired.

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      3 hours ago

      There’s more reason they’ve been trying to retire then since before many people here were born and yet haven’t been. Troops love them, armchair strategists that have been saying they aren’t worth the money don’t. Who should I care about more I wonder.