A10 is slow for a fighter but plenty fast enough for a tank buster. I think a couple of squadrons of A10's could clean out a few hundred Russian tanks no sweat. The A10's could fly from stateside to eastern Europe in a day. Transports bringing mechanics, flight line crews, spare parts, ordinance, whatever would only be a day later.
Then send a couple of squadrons of F16s and F35s to provide fighter escort again MIGs . Send the F35s so we can see if they really work against MIGs. Send the F16s in case the F35s don't work. F16s can go up against anything that flies. There was an air-to-air exercise a year or so ago where an F16 repeatedly beat an F35 in mock dog fights. This was in Aviation Week.
All this force could be in eastern Europe in time to deter or stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The newsies don't talk about this. Few newsies have ever been on a flight line.
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