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Ukraine’s F-16s Have Scored Their First Aerial Kills
Forbes ^

Posted on 08/27/2024 5:30:51 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Ukraine’s ex-Danish Lockheed Martin F-16s have scored their first aerial victories. According to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the supersonic F-16s shot down Russian cruise missiles during the Russian air raids targeting Ukrainian cities on Monday.

The shoot-downs came three weeks after the first of the nimble F-16s, out of around 85 that Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway have pledged, arrived in Ukraine.

“It is excellent to see them in action,” wrote Joni Askola, a Finnish analyst.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aerial; escalation; f16s; killkillkillforpeace; mic; scored; tothelastukrainian; ukraine; welfarewar; zeeperporn
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They make it sound as if it's a video game..🙄
1 posted on 08/27/2024 5:30:51 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Ghost of Kiev is back! He regenerated.


2 posted on 08/27/2024 5:33:30 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More war!!! Yea! I thought this thing was winding down, with F16’s in the game now things might get really interesting.


3 posted on 08/27/2024 5:36:52 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Well, looks like they are trying real hard to get World War III started and drag a lot of other nations into their hurt feelings.


4 posted on 08/27/2024 5:37:04 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Zeep Zeep Zeep!


5 posted on 08/27/2024 5:39:45 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: The Louiswu

Wait til the Ukes seriously hit Moscow and cause many deaths. Then it gets series and hugh.


6 posted on 08/27/2024 5:44:50 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

7 posted on 08/27/2024 5:45:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who is flying the plane?

Those skills are NOT learned in a Month.


8 posted on 08/27/2024 5:46:01 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

9 posted on 08/27/2024 5:46:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

10 posted on 08/27/2024 5:46:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The Ukrainian air force and army claimed they shot down 102 missiles and 99 drones.


11 posted on 08/27/2024 5:52:10 PM PDT by OldHarbor (strained statutory arguments, appeals to inconsistent history, reliance on out-of-circuit authority)
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To: Texas Fossil

I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like the AVG without Claire Chennault.


12 posted on 08/27/2024 5:55:11 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: OldHarbor

I know the Whitehouse is trying to compete with FOX and Disney, but did they have to make Sideshow Bob a black lesbian woman?


13 posted on 08/27/2024 5:56:24 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope the F-16 are far in the rear away from missiles and drones. On the ground they are sitting ducks.


14 posted on 08/27/2024 6:03:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: Texas Fossil

I think the pilots have been training for about 6-8 months.


15 posted on 08/27/2024 6:04:52 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: rovenstinez
Well, looks like they are trying real hard to get World War III started and drag a lot of other nations into their hurt feelings.

Yes, how dare the Ukrainians fight back against a Russian invasion. It's unfair!

16 posted on 08/27/2024 6:13:11 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Texas Fossil

—” Those skills are NOT learned in a Month.”

That is usually true, but not always.

A young man who worked for me, could flip through the pages of a book and absorb over 90%.

A farm boy/gearhead that was in the same dorm, a nice kid with a few odd hobbies, He enjoyed finding tangled clumps of string to untangle, he was a scholastic superstar.

I worked years in a large R&D lab, that had a few mixed in the seven thousand workers on campus.

They exist.


17 posted on 08/27/2024 6:13:27 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Texas Fossil
Those skills are NOT learned in a Month.

Cruise missiles don't shoot back or maneuver.

It's not a furball, more like a training exercise.

18 posted on 08/27/2024 6:16:01 PM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You all will note, of course, that I predicted this role of the F-16’s, as interceptors of cruise missiles. When we were discussing this matter over 18 months ago I said that because of the F-16’s look-down-shoot down capability, and the large number of available AMRAAMS in Western stockpiles.

Its a good supplement to Patriot and such, to extend SAM stocks and add an extra capability during attempted saturation attacks.

This prediction was not copied from any MSM commentary at the time.

So yet again, I was right, and insightful as well.


19 posted on 08/27/2024 6:29:31 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Texas Fossil

I think I remember stories where Ukranian pilots were trained on U.S. planes long before U.S. planes were shipped to Ukraine.


20 posted on 08/27/2024 6:57:22 PM PDT by convoter2016
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