As Brent Eastwood previously wrote for The National Interest, “The Su-27, surprisingly, has seen little combat. Export models have flown in the Angolan civil war and the Ethiopia-Eritrea civil ...
"They were on alert, on combat readiness," he added ... the missiles took out one Su-27 fighter jet and damaged two others. Russia's Air Force suffered particularly heavy losses in late February ...
"The Russian Aerospace Forces downed two Su-27 fighter jets of Ukraine’s air ... two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles and three cars. Ukraine’s armed forces lost up ...