[haldujai]

Pretty sure Ukraine had one of the better GBADs in Europe going into the war, especially as that’s not an area the West invests a great deal in.

The CNA and RUSI have both released excellent reports on the VKS challenges and performance.

SEAD/DEAD missions seem to be much harder than the US has made them look in the past (granted against much weaker GBADs than Ukraine or Russia have).

https://www.cna.org/reports/2023/04/Russian-Combat-Air-Stren...

[anikan_vader]

Thank you for the source, it has been good reading so far. Your comment about US SEAD operations in the past made me recheck my priors about the Gulf War. I was surprised to learn that Iraq had no strategic SAM systems [1].

[1] https://balloonstodrones.com/2022/10/19/looking-back-at-iraq...