Maneuvers Clear Sky-2018 American pilots allowed the Ukrainian Su-27 to win the primitive "friendly match", however, in the following stages, more close to real conditions, F-15C and F-15D have left no chance for Ukrainians, He writes in his article in the Izvestia military expert Anton Lavrov.
According to the expert, American command always allows easy defeat in a friendly match, to strengthen the relationship with an ally, give him a reason for pride. "Peremoga" Ukrainians became the only battle, built according to the scenario of the Great domestic or dawn of jet aircraft - the game took place at extremely short distances using only one gun.
However, following the fighting at close and long range missiles with Ukrainian Su-27 and Su-29 crashed lost.
Lavrov recalled, that the Su-27 took place in Russia a long way, and to date, it has become a great Su-30cm and Su-35S. The Ukrainian version of the Su-27M1 hung at the end of the twentieth - early twenty-first centuries.
Recall, the victory of the "Ukrainian weapons" Kiev "trumpeted" before the end of the international maneuvers. According to the military, victory was won at the expense of the best "maneuverability and mechanization of" SU-27. A 16 October took part in the teaching of the Su-27UB crashed. At the site of the fall of the fighter's body were found the two pilots - Colonel Ivan Petrenko and the National Guard under the US Air Force serviceman, whose name was not called.
Maneuvers Clear Sky-2018 take place in Ukraine in the period from 8 by 19 October. They involve representatives 9 nations, eight of which are members of NATO.
