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.
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The Ghost of Kiev is back! He regenerated.
More war!!! Yea! I thought this thing was winding down, with F16’s in the game now things might get really interesting.
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.
Zeep Zeep Zeep!
Wait til the Ukes seriously hit Moscow and cause many deaths. Then it gets series and hugh.
Who is flying the plane?
Those skills are NOT learned in a Month.
I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like the AVG without Claire Chennault.
I know the Whitehouse is trying to compete with FOX and Disney, but did they have to make Sideshow Bob a black lesbian woman?
I hope the F-16 are far in the rear away from missiles and drones. On the ground they are sitting ducks.
I think the pilots have been training for about 6-8 months.
Yes, how dare the Ukrainians fight back against a Russian invasion. It's unfair!
—” 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.
Cruise missiles don't shoot back or maneuver.
It's not a furball, more like a training exercise.
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.
I think I remember stories where Ukranian pilots were trained on U.S. planes long before U.S. planes were shipped to Ukraine.
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