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    Selenskyj bestätigt: Ukraine hat F-16-Kampfflugzeuge eingesetzt, um russischen Massenraketenangriff abzuwehren


    Selenskyj bestätigt: Ukraine hat F-16-Kampfflugzeuge eingesetzt, um russischen Massenraketenangriff abzuwehren

    https://kyivindependent.com/f-16s-defense-russian-mass-attack/

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    1. bytemeagain1 on

      That’s an escalation.

      We might hear more about this one. It’s the first time I have seen it.

    2. Tnargkiller on

      > Ukraine downed 102 missiles and 99 drones of the 127 missiles and 109 drones launched by Russia during the morning attack.

      Those are intercept rates of 80.3% and 90.8%, respectively. Hopefully they can get it higher once further tranches of F-16’s get there.

    3. JeanClaude-Randamme on

      My predictions about the F-16s were spot on then, I was saying back in spring that they would first be used as added air defences against cruise missiles, to get the pilots some real combat experience – before they will be risked anywhere near the front.

    4. TwanToni on

      These babies came just in time… They are trying over saturation attacks and are landing some but I can’t imagine what it would have looked like with less Aircraft to defend the skies during these last 2 days…. Hope nothing to bad got hit but it looks like quite a few spots all around Ukraine was hit…. Gotta do more, send them more bradleys too, the U.S has plenty and hope they get those pilots trained up well along with more F-16s. Unfortunately China helps them a lot because Russia has to get the computer chips for their cruise, ballistic, drones, and basically most of their weaponry including tanks from China and other countries which they seem to not having a lot of trouble getting since they are still manufacturing plenty of tanks a month along with these Last 2 day strikes which worries me a little if they skirted the sanctions that much with China or if China is able to make a homemade variant that would suffice

    5. YogaNymphNature1 on

      Ukraine used F-16s to help repel Russia’s largest missile and drone attack on August 26, downing many of the 200 launched, President Zelensky confirmed.

    8. NolAloha on

      During the Second World War, the RAF, coordinating their defense with radar support, was able to destroy almost all of the German V-1 buzz bombs. An F-16, matching speed with a drone, can easily destroy multiple targets.

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