... need to fly significantly farther west. The Russian air force has made periodic flights in this direction, and in a well-known incident close to Denmark’s air boundary its planes were approximately equidistant from Danish and German airspace.
Syria.
The author understates the average number of flights by Russian aircraft. If we look at the number of sorties already flown – 5,600 against ground targets in the period from October to the first ten days of December 2015 – we get more ...
... inconvenience for U.S. (and later coalition) aviation was the large distance between the main battle ground and the bases from which the aircraft were scrambled.
From the start of the operation one serious inconvenience for U.S. (and later coalition) aviation was the large distance between the main battle ground (northern Iraq and later northern Syria) and the bases from which the aircraft were scrambled. The distance between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (where most U.S. Air Force planes are based) to northern Iraq is about 1,500 km. The distance from Kuwait to the northern coast of the ...