Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Earlier this month, the Congressional Research Service issued a report on the possibilities and implications of handing over fighter aircraft to Ukraine. In providing Congress with options to consider, the CRS illustrates evolving institutional support for the idea. Whether it comes to pass and how remains in question. Released on March 17, the report summarized the debate about assisting Ukraine with additional Russian-designed fighter aircraft or providing Western fighters from the F-16 and F/A-18 to Saab's Gripen and the Eurofighter Typhoon. On one side of the debate, CRS noted some analysts assert that combat aircraft have not yet played a decisive role in the conflict and are unlikely to do so based on current Ukrainian and Russian capabilities. On the other, the authors observed that proponents of transferring U.S. or NATO fighter jets to Ukraine claim that it may allow the Ukrainian military to address gaps in operational capabilities including air superiority, suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD), intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-land (air-to-ground) capabilities. The report boiled these two streams of thought down to an "air denial" strategy (deny Russia ability to use airpower) versus an "air superiority" (help Ukraine overcome… Read full this story
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