I did look it up for myself. It doesn’t change all the fuss made over them in the media and by politicians. Graham was giddy over them.
After they lost their best pilot in that crash right after receiving the very first F-16s, we never heard much about them again. Graham was begging for retired NATO pilots to come fly them, never heard whether there were any takers.
There was this one video they touted about six or eight weeks ago of an F-16 flying along over western Ukraine on a nice day, just flying along. I guess to prove there was someone who could fly it. Just fly it along in a nice straight line.
They have regularly been flying CAP (combat air patrol) along likely cruise missile approaches once an alert is received. They are generally tasked with shooting down the most numerous Kh101 class (slow) of cruise missiles. This spares the Patriots for ballistic missiles or high-speed missiles for which the F16 AMRAAMS are unsuited.
It all depends on the news you follow.
Look, get your war news from places like this. There are tons of articles cited from which you have a better chance of getting a comprehensive “open source” picture.
Even google news does a decent job if you train it to feature military tech stories.