Altitude Capability News Today

Jonathan, very powerful system, gives you high altitude capability. its a tool the ukrainians need to create their own no-fly zone. i think the next thing that nato could do would be to get tactical aircraft, jets into the hands of the ukrainian pilots. the mig-29, pretty good candidate. i think that has been examined very seriously. might come into the battle field. again, a major tool in allowing the ukrainians to enforce a no-fly zone. >> are those the planes that are sitting in poland right ...

Thats what president zelenskyy asked for. he gets a lot more, too. the lethal drones, we need more of those in the country as well. he talks about a no-fly zone. they can create their own if we give them the military and wea -- military weapons. >> that raises the defense to a high altitude given the s-300s capability. to your point, the combination of that, stingers which have a lower altitude capability, other systems we reported earlier this morning, theyre medium altitude. can that add up to...

Better. also a lot of the surface to air missile systems from the u.k. that have higher altitude capability than the stingers that theyve been using. those would be crucial. jet fighters are going to have a tough time surviving particularly a mig 29 against russian fighters and against russia surface to air missile defenses. but things like the s 300 and other higher grade surface to air missiles can really you know, take down russian missiles and russian planes and help ukraine get a little bit...

And can you get boxed in. so, if you reach a point where you are running out of options, you have to do the right thing because its almost like this. if the controller tried to vector you into another airplane, he couldnt do it in a million years. so you forget about that aspect of it because if you -- you dont want to be in a situation where there is a thousand and one chance you might hit another airplane and trade that for a 50/50 chance you may get upset at very high altitude. the higher the...

Enjoyed my time as the captain on the airplane. we flew it in all weather. it is a very maneuverable airplane. it has absolute state of the art electronics, both weather radar and systems on the airplane. so the pilots of an a-320 are prepared as anybody in the sky to be able to deal with inclement weather. and pilots professional pilots deal with thunderstorms and inclement weather regularly. its part of the experience that you gain as a pilot. so the deviation requests are absolutely normal. t...