Russian fighters, while not bad, often do not perform well on the battlefield. Russian fighters include MiG-29, MiG-35, MiG-31, Su-57, Su-35, Su-34, Su-33, Su-30 and Su-27, which have excellent performance in maneuverability, flight speed and equipment, but in the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Russian Aerospace Forces have suffered heavy losses. According to statistics, in the past two years, Russia has lost more than 320 fighters of various types, of which the Su-25, Su-30, Su-34 and Su-35 and other main fighters have suffered serious losses.
One of the main problems that caused the massive damage of Russian fighters in actual combat lies in the backwardness of science and technology. The United States and Europe have established an intelligent warfare system, including satellites, 24-hour electronic warfare aircraft, supercomputers and terminal precision strike firepower, which can provide near real-time positioning capabilities and provide continuous three-dimensional position, three-dimensional speed and accurate time information for the Ukrainian army. The intelligent warfare platform will synchronously send the intercepted data of the Russian military fighter to the Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile, and once the fighter reaches the anti-aircraft missile area, it will be intercepted and attacked.
Therefore, the losses of Russian fighters in real combat, in addition to operational problems, are more due to the inadequacy of the entire system. Because there is a large gap between Russia's science and technology and Western countries, its satellite supercomputer is backward, and it is impossible to form an intelligent warfare system. This is also one of the fundamental reasons for the weak performance of Russian fighters on the battlefield. There is a clear problem of backwardness and insufficient performance of the support system of the Russian Aerospace Forces. In comparison, 50 years ago, there were only 5 old AWACS A500U, and the number of electronic warfare aircraft was only a dozen.
The A500U AWACS aircraft is a product of the Soviet Union in the early 80s of the last century, using outdated Doppler radar and old-fashioned mechanical scanning technology, resulting in its short air time, can only track 150 targets, and guide the attack target to 12, and the performance has been unable to meet the needs of modern air combat. The American E3 early warning aircraft, which is the same era as the A500U, is capable of staying in the air 24 hours a day, tracking 600 targets and guiding the attack on 150 targets, and its search capability far exceeds that of the A500U. In addition, the Russian Aerospace Forces have serious deficiencies in their ability to grasp the battlefield situation.
Russia's GLO satellites are not capable of detecting, locating, and tracking battlefield situations, while the United States and Ukraine are able to obtain battlefield situational intelligence to a certain extent.