Quote Originally Posted by poop
Oh this changes everything. I thought they had tanks and other modern weapons. If they were driving up to Moscow in cars, sure yeah 50k casualties is reasonable.
Maybe if they're making these tanks out of the same stuff they made the 9/11 terrorists' passports out of then they might have a chance of not being completely fucked by an air raid.

There's plenty of examples in history...
So not only are you attempting to use figures from open battlefields with questionable air supremacy to estimate the damage an air raid on a convoy could do where you have total air supremacy, you're also going to compare WWII aircraft with modern anti tank aircraft.

In none of those did they deliver the kinds of casualty rates you guys are presuming Russia could deliver.
None of these were on home soil for the air force in question, either. And none of them were using 2023 technology.

The Russians could be using Soviet-era planes and still have a massive advantage just by using modern bombs and homing systems. I appreciate tanks are also better now than they were in the 1940s, but I'm not sure they're keeping up with the increasing power of bombs, and increasing accuracy from greater altitude.

Maybe I'm wrong and a large convoy of tanks and military trucks under private command is more than capable of being bombed by one of the most feared air forces in the world (one that has kept the Syrian president in power despite Western efforts) without suffering catastrophic losses.