(Photo : Oleg Belyakov/wiki) A Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 in July 2011
According to Stephen Blank, part of the Foreign Policy Research Institute says that Ukraine Air Force will benefit from F-15 and F-16 fighter jets against Russian. Their current planes are no march for top-of-the-line Russian planes.
Stephen Blank
One way the UAF can have a fighting chance is by using American planes with modern intelligent munitions and air defense capabilities.
Ukraine s strongest air assets are two under-strength fighter brigades of about fifty Su-27 FLANKERs, which are roughly equal to the US F-15C. Thirty of them are thought to be operational. The Soviet F-111 and workhorse of Russia s bombing campaign in Syria is a fighter brigade of smart munition-capable Su-24 FENCERs.