While there is hundreds of UAVs being shot down daily according to these graphics, the number of aircraft and helicopters is barely increasing over the past two months.
6 Aircraft and 3 Helicopters since 25.06.2025 but more than 11,000 UAVs.
Does this indicate a shift in the material used by Russia, are they running low on the manned vehicles, is Ukranian air defense now reliable to deter them, or is the air defense exhausted and cannot shoot them down regularly anymore?
Ukraine have taken out a lot of their fuel, and it’s hard to get a plane airborne without ;-)
I suspect that the recent attacks on their airbases have “grounded” a lot of planes, but yes, the failure of USA to deliver what was already agreed, might have had an impact also.
Russia can launch kalibr from subs in the Black Sea, and the glide bombs they launch from planes, can be launched from inside Russia, so I don’t think we will be seeing many planes shot down over Ukraine in the future. One thing is the cost of an airplane, but if you add the cost of maintenance and pilot education, the cost of one plane is equal many drones.
While there is hundreds of UAVs being shot down daily according to these graphics, the number of aircraft and helicopters is barely increasing over the past two months.
6 Aircraft and 3 Helicopters since 25.06.2025 but more than 11,000 UAVs.
Does this indicate a shift in the material used by Russia, are they running low on the manned vehicles, is Ukranian air defense now reliable to deter them, or is the air defense exhausted and cannot shoot them down regularly anymore?
Ukraine have taken out a lot of their fuel, and it’s hard to get a plane airborne without ;-)
I suspect that the recent attacks on their airbases have “grounded” a lot of planes, but yes, the failure of USA to deliver what was already agreed, might have had an impact also.
Russia can launch kalibr from subs in the Black Sea, and the glide bombs they launch from planes, can be launched from inside Russia, so I don’t think we will be seeing many planes shot down over Ukraine in the future. One thing is the cost of an airplane, but if you add the cost of maintenance and pilot education, the cost of one plane is equal many drones.