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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
So once again why does Canada need new fighter jets? Just procure a million drones and anti aircraft weapons.
Also after this 2022 war are tanks obsolete now?
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In a war fighter jets would be needed for air interdiction, air superiority, and long range strikes. i.e. prevent your infantry from getting bombed to hell, shooting down enemy aircraft, and bombing enemy infantry. Drones can be jammed and shot down easily if you have air superiority and proper air patrols, which the Russians don't have due to fumbling the initial strikes. And a proper airforce with enough guided munitions would take care of anti-aircraft weapons at far longer ranges than MANPAD systems like Starstreak, but Russians ran out of and misused all of those munitions. Basically if you want to do any type of offensive operations outside your home turf, you'd need fighter jets to cover infantry advance.
Tanks are not obsolete, but Russians are using obsolete tactics and/or tanks. Tanks are still plenty effective in destroying IFVs and other tanks but only in situations where they are properly supported by infantry and covered by air support. i.e. combined arms. Newer tanks have Active Protection systems that will shoot down anti-tank missiles all day, see Trophy (not a single Isreali Merkava tank has been lost to ATGMs ever fighting in dense urban conditions), Afghanit, GL5, Quick Kill, etc. but Russia only have a handful of modern post-cold war era tanks and they badly misused their armor... actually, badly misused all of their entire armed forces and logistics based on a combination of incompetence and corruption. Russians are trying to fight a cold-war era invasion on horrible intel, against modern weapons and tactics. Russians are also not using the majority of their firepower either like heavy artillery, which would normally shred unarmored infantry, to "limit" casualties and prevent bad domestic optics.