An important detail we need to discuss is serviceability rates. For all NATO and Pact nations, as well as the PVO and VVO. I am looking to see what I can dig up, but should hopefully have something this weekend.
Unless someone else has something sooner (which would be awesome). If your fighter regiment (60 aircraft typically) has only 50% of its aircraft fit for action, and the NATO nations are running around 60-75% (of 54-72 aircraft), that too will matter.
Of course over a prolonged campaign, if each side is hitting each others airfields with persistent chemical weapons, ballistic missiles (even without nuclear warheads) and air attacks, those rates are likely to fall anyway. But what they start at matters a lot.
Unless someone else has something sooner (which would be awesome). If your fighter regiment (60 aircraft typically) has only 50% of its aircraft fit for action, and the NATO nations are running around 60-75% (of 54-72 aircraft), that too will matter.
Of course over a prolonged campaign, if each side is hitting each others airfields with persistent chemical weapons, ballistic missiles (even without nuclear warheads) and air attacks, those rates are likely to fall anyway. But what they start at matters a lot.