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Sukhoi Massacre! Ukraine Has Shot Down Six Of Russia's Best Jets In Just Three Days.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/19/sukhoi-massacre-ukraine-has-shot-down-six-of-russias-best-jets-in-just-three-days/The Ukrainian air force is desperately short of its best munitions, including its 90-mile-range, U.S.-made Patriot air-defense missiles.
But the air force rarely wastes a missile. So when it does fire off one of its dwindling number of Patriots, it seldom misses.
Which is why, even as the Ukrainians scream, beg and politic for more munitions, theyve shot down as many as six Russian fighter-bombers in just the last three days. A rate of loss the Russian air force cannot sustain.
Russian planes continue to fall! the Ukrainian defense ministry crowed on Monday. The claimed tally includes four twin-seat Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers and two single-seat Sukhoi Su-35s.
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SU-34s and SU-35s falling to Patriots. Fall days.
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Sukhoi Massacre! Ukraine Has Shot Down Six Of Russia's Best Jets In Just Three Days. (Original Post)
Kennah
Feb 20
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Beastly Boy
(9,348 posts)1. Is UAF reporting how these Sukhoys were shut down?
Is it possible... shhh... that the F-16s are already in Ukraine and are hunting down Russia's best airplanes?
Kennah
(14,265 posts)2. F-16s are possible
Igel
(35,309 posts)3. Absolutely.
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-02-20-24/h_4c18c2037ea5effd11b52811e7f57463
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2024/02/first-ukrainian-f-16-pilots-will-complete-training-soon-may/394264/
Showing the world how it's done. 12. First should graduate in May.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-pilots-f-16-training-start-aug-officials-2023-07-11/
VILNIUS, July 11 (Reuters) - A coalition of 11 nations will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets in August in Denmark, and a training centre will be set up in Romania, officials said on Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Lithuania.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2024/02/first-ukrainian-f-16-pilots-will-complete-training-soon-may/394264/
Ukrainian pilots will start graduating from F-16 fighter jet training in May, the Air National Guard estimates.
The first four pilots are pretty close to the end of their training, Air National Guard director Lt. Gen. Michael Loh told reporters Tuesday at the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium.
The U.S. is training 12 Ukrainian pilots in fiscal 2024all of whom are set to graduate between May and August, according to Arizona National Guard spokesperson Capt. Erin Hannigan.
Showing the world how it's done. 12. First should graduate in May.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-pilots-f-16-training-start-aug-officials-2023-07-11/
VILNIUS, July 11 (Reuters) - A coalition of 11 nations will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets in August in Denmark, and a training centre will be set up in Romania, officials said on Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Lithuania.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/europe/netherlands-denmark-f-16-fighter-jets-ukraine-intl/index.htmlUkraines Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Saturday that Ukrainian pilots had begun training
If there are F-16s in the air in Ukraine in combat, they're European-trained pilots. Slava Ameritsi ta Ukraini, abo naimenshe NATO ta Ukraini. Better late than never, prypuskayu.. Sometimes the US is really similar to a non-smelly Pierson's puppeteer.