https://twitter.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1816121207831306547
✈️🇺🇦 "Ukraine will not use F-16s on the front line", — Syrskyi
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) July 24, 2024
👀 Fighter jets will be used to strengthen air defence. F-16s will destroy Russian cruise missiles and strike ground targets, but will remain "40+ km from the front line" due to the risk of being shot down. pic.twitter.com/BleD6uH0Au
By 40km he means 400km tho since Russian ad go beyond 40km
It's Biden fault a small multi role jet with short range and relatively low lift weight is not destroying Moscow !
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They can travel directly over SAMs while accompanied by EW craft, we do this shit on the daily.
!burgers this is literally how we flew 1.21 gigawatts of planes over Baghdad in Desert Storm. I think we used Growlers.
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Sadam didn't even had s200.
Ukraine is full with EW
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Saddam had the best stuff the Soviets had to offer around 1980 (with a few exceptions like ballistic missiles). The fact that we (I mean the people of Earth here) were able to trounce him in 100 hours should have been a learning experience for commie peepeelickers like you. But I guess if you could learn you wouldn't be worshipping some strag who talks about how many tractors were just produced.
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He didn't had s200 and that thing was produced in mid 60's and you says he had best soviets had to offer. S300 entered in service in 1978. You should better explain how is abrams KDA in Ukraine 0/31/0
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_variants_of_Soviet_military_equipment
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F-16s are are the jets used to purposely get shot at by SAMs to destroy them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel
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Single one of those pilots most likely had more flight hours than the whole UKR squadron though. It makes sense not sending them to the front to die.
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Growlers weren't a thing back then. It was all Prowlers and Sparkvarks in Desert Storm.
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