Stories like this (and my own painful experience) are why I don't trust air strikes in this game. I've had much better luck using an equivalent point value of good artillery then aircraft, 85% of the time.
I've seen everything from expensive, effective SAM batteries (Patriot versus eurofighter) missing 5 out of 5 shots, to an enemy MIG with no ecm whatsoever flying through a flak wall from 8+ 40mm AAA batteries. Yet when I try to do it, I lose every unit with wings I own
