Very misleading. Those aerial “kills” are missiles that the F16s shot down. According to the article they haven’t been used against enemy aircraft or against ground forces.
The clickbait from those articles is getting quite annoying
Aerial kills make it sound like it was fighter kill victory but in this case it was cruise missile.
One AC-130 escorted by two F16 could make a much heavier difference on open field
> 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.
> "Once Ukraine acquires additional F-16 jets, more pilots, two Saab AEW planes, increased experience and more missiles, the jets will be utilized for purposes beyond just air defense," Askola predicted, referring to the two Swedish-made Saab 340 airborne early warning radar aircraft Ukraine is set to receive.
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Very misleading. Those aerial “kills” are missiles that the F16s shot down. According to the article they haven’t been used against enemy aircraft or against ground forces.
The clickbait from those articles is getting quite annoying
Aerial kills make it sound like it was fighter kill victory but in this case it was cruise missile.
One AC-130 escorted by two F16 could make a much heavier difference on open field
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/08/27/ukraines-f-16s-have-scored-their-first-aerial-kills/?ss=aerospace-defense) reduced by 89%. (I’m a bot)
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> Ukraine's ex-Danish Lockheed Martin F-16s have scored their first aerial victories.
> 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.
> "Once Ukraine acquires additional F-16 jets, more pilots, two Saab AEW planes, increased experience and more missiles, the jets will be utilized for purposes beyond just air defense," Askola predicted, referring to the two Swedish-made Saab 340 airborne early warning radar aircraft Ukraine is set to receive.
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I wish they could railgun this rockets down instead of wasting such expensive Air2Air rockets.
This is the setting for Top Gun 3. Scientology Jesus don’t let me down.
Hey, if F-22’s can count weather balloons this is a legit air to air kill.
Cant get worse at it.
It’s not a fuxking game
Well after this Ukranians will have to train Americans since they will see real air combat.
It still confuses me that there’s a country flying both MiGs and F-16s
Aren’t they USAs F16s that they gave to Ukraine?