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To: CatHerd

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.

https://www.defensenews.com/


48 posted on 03/13/2025 4:45:00 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

I check that site from time to time, have for years.

I haven’t noticed anything about the great exploits of Ukrainian F-16s, how they have been “real game changers” or turned the tide of the war.

The Ukrainians seem disappointed in them:

“Seven months after the deliveries of the first F-16 fourth generation fighters to Ukraine, Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yuri Ignat provided insight into the fighters’ capabilities, stating that they were incapable of engaging the Su-35 ‘4+ generation’ fighters in the Russian Air Force.”

[snip]

“Ukrainian misgivings regarding the F-16’s limitations contrast sharply with the high hopes previously expressed that the aircraft would be a game changer. “When [we] have F-16, we will win this war,” Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat previously stated in May 2023, highlighting that Western supplied air defence systems, including American Patriot missile systems recently destroyed in Russian air strikes, were insufficient to protect a Ukrainian airspace. “The territory of the country and the length of the state border are big and the frontline … is over 2,500 kilometres [long],” he stated, adding that F-16s could become “a part of the air defences” and be used in areas not covered by the ground based anti air assets.”


51 posted on 03/13/2025 5:53:51 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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