A no-fly zone would put U.S. and other NATO pilots in a position of shooting down Russian planes. Experts warn such action risks escalating the conflict dramatically
. Ukrainian air force pilots already know how to fly the Soviet-era jets.
For Alexander Benard, an adjunct fellow at Hudson Institute who has written on previous no-fly zones, imposing a zone covering the entire country “could do more harm than good, by expanding the conflict beyond Ukraine’s borders” and involving countries that seek to enforce the no-fly zone in the war.
reported that several former U.S. defense and foreign policy officials wrote to Biden seeking the deployment of American and NATO aircraft with a promise not to engage Russian forces.A U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter jet takes off from Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany on Feb. 22, 2022. U.S. forces moved stealth fighter jets to the air base in the Eifel region ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Additionally, suppressing Russian air power would require massive numbers of planes and SAM missiles. While the U.S. Air Force is the largest in the world, with more than 2,200 fighters, bombers, and attack aircraft, European air forces are considerably smaller. The U.K.’s Royal Air Force has 234 combat-capable aircraft, while the air force of Poland, a NATO member that borders Ukraine, has 94.
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