Ukrainian F-16 equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9 sidewinder and MAWS sytem on its pylons
August 4, 2024
Ukrainian F-16 equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9 sidewinder and MAWS sytem on its pylons
by jimmehi
39 comments
Beautiful 🥲
finally
Stay safe and give those war criminals ZZ’s what is long overdue.
Can anyone tell what version of the AAMRAM this is? As I understand, the latest version of AAMRAM is what Ukraine needs to keep the Su-34’s from dropping glide bombs all over eastern Ukraine.
Falcon Flybys over their cities will surely boost morale
The “cheap” AIM-9s cost about $400k if anyone was wondering.
Anyone able to tell if these are AIM-9X?
What I think is informative in that pic is the two extra fuel tanks underwing, increasing the sortie range very significantly.
Hej, sokoly!
Hope they make 100 decoy’s
Please please please send a couple Su-27’s for a bombing run….. Riiiiiight where drones and HIMARS have worked the Radar and SAM sites…. The AIM-9X has been waiting patiently to do what it was made for, blowing SU-k4s out of the sky
Imagine if some of MBDA meteor was sent aswell. 200km Ramjet monster would be close to impossible to defeat but 2000000€ per missile
TU95’s better watch out . We know where they launch their cruise missiles from >:)
Clear skies and good hunting! To these brave pilots.
Everyone so hyped about f16s. Why is that? What makes them so unique or what can they deliver what ukrainians couldnt do before?
Just needs Ukraine colors
Those S400 destroyed numbers are about to triple.
God speed
They look sexy with the Tryzub
Hmmm no targeting pods?
Oof that runway is lookin a little rough
It’s interesting that the AMRAAMs are inert training rounds. The Sidewinders are real. I wonder why? The F-16 shown taking off has no AMRAAMs on it. Just Sidewinders.
Better late than never!!!!
There is an article in russian I will post comparing the radars. On paper russians have batter radars until you read the fine print. The ranges they list are against very reflective airframes whereas f16s are 1/5 of that. The f16s radar range that is listed is realistic against tactical aircraft. In other words there is a radar parity. The important thing here is who can bring their awacs to play. The weapons max range is not material if they can see each other at about the same time.
Before everyone gets to excited, take a look at this article and this video?
This tech is all old as fuck. AIM 9 L/M and 120 Bs. These are probably block 30 aircraft.
Happy hunting boys!!!
May ye Fighting Falcon have happy hunting of terrorist Zs in the air 💪🌻🇺🇦
Most endangered Planes on earth right now. Russia will be frantically throw everything they have at them and the airfields.
Stay save! Use them good and wisely!
Horrido! Good hunting!
Whats the range of these missiles? Does the F-16 outperform the russian one?
First look at actual Ukrainian F-16s. What we can see from this is that they have received Danish f-16MLU. We also see the Danish DID NOT hand over (that we see at least) airframes they had that underwent the ‘have glass’ upgrade of RAM coating. However, we can see they handed over their vipers with the TERMA pylon with active and passive self defense.
Another note is that during Zelensky’s speach we saw 2 vipers flying and 2 on the ground. The ones on the ground ARE NOT REAL. They are fakes. Pretty good ones. If they have plenty of these the Russians will have no real way of telling if they are hitting real airframes or not.
Now let’s look at some other gear/weapons. I can see the pilot is not equipped with the JHMCS, which is what you’d want to take full advantage of the aim-9x high off bore sight capability. Instead these are the aim-9L/M. We can also see aim-120 AMRAAM here. I can tell from the rear aero surfaces that this is 100% not a later variant of AMRAAM. It’s not even AIM-120 c5 or C7. I’m almost certain this is AIM-120B.
All I hear when I read this is “You need to construct additional pylons”
Xtra long haul that day…
What a beauty.
I would love to hear what the Ukrainian Pilots think of these birds.
The AIM-120, I wonder what specific type. Either way, if Russia are silly enough to by flying around any rubbish too close (like an Su-27 or MiG-29), then the AIM-120 will strike it with ease.
Hopefully Russia has horrible strategy and a bunch of their jets get taken out.
Must feel like Christmas morning for these pilots. Give those invaders hell.
They would 💯 be smart enough not to put all the cards on the table by showing the best equipment up close for photo ops. I also cant imagine much of an impact on the biggest problem(glide bomb launches) if you’re only gonna give them B variants of a2a missiles
39 comments
Beautiful 🥲
finally
Stay safe and give those war criminals ZZ’s what is long overdue.
Can anyone tell what version of the AAMRAM this is? As I understand, the latest version of AAMRAM is what Ukraine needs to keep the Su-34’s from dropping glide bombs all over eastern Ukraine.
Falcon Flybys over their cities will surely boost morale
The “cheap” AIM-9s cost about $400k if anyone was wondering.
Anyone able to tell if these are AIM-9X?
What I think is informative in that pic is the two extra fuel tanks underwing, increasing the sortie range very significantly.
Hej, sokoly!
Hope they make 100 decoy’s
Please please please send a couple Su-27’s for a bombing run….. Riiiiiight where drones and HIMARS have worked the Radar and SAM sites…. The AIM-9X has been waiting patiently to do what it was made for, blowing SU-k4s out of the sky
Imagine if some of MBDA meteor was sent aswell. 200km Ramjet monster would be close to impossible to defeat but 2000000€ per missile
TU95’s better watch out . We know where they launch their cruise missiles from >:)
Clear skies and good hunting! To these brave pilots.
Everyone so hyped about f16s. Why is that? What makes them so unique or what can they deliver what ukrainians couldnt do before?
Just needs Ukraine colors
Those S400 destroyed numbers are about to triple.
God speed
They look sexy with the Tryzub
Hmmm no targeting pods?
Oof that runway is lookin a little rough
It’s interesting that the AMRAAMs are inert training rounds. The Sidewinders are real. I wonder why? The F-16 shown taking off has no AMRAAMs on it. Just Sidewinders.
Better late than never!!!!
There is an article in russian I will post comparing the radars. On paper russians have batter radars until you read the fine print. The ranges they list are against very reflective airframes whereas f16s are 1/5 of that. The f16s radar range that is listed is realistic against tactical aircraft. In other words there is a radar parity. The important thing here is who can bring their awacs to play. The weapons max range is not material if they can see each other at about the same time.
Before everyone gets to excited, take a look at this article and this video?
[https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/ukraine-f-16-pilot-training-00161742?fbclid=IwY2xjawEcWzdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUt9jwbiwV_9jzRGEMUMdEsSOwEMlMLoiHHpQLC8ZZwi_gB9decCdV9e8w_aem_03XrVKqD3GBq0r7fuC45Yg](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/ukraine-f-16-pilot-training-00161742?fbclid=IwY2xjawEcWzdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUt9jwbiwV_9jzRGEMUMdEsSOwEMlMLoiHHpQLC8ZZwi_gB9decCdV9e8w_aem_03XrVKqD3GBq0r7fuC45Yg)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcfS0ki950](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcfS0ki950)
This tech is all old as fuck. AIM 9 L/M and 120 Bs. These are probably block 30 aircraft.
Happy hunting boys!!!
May ye Fighting Falcon have happy hunting of terrorist Zs in the air 💪🌻🇺🇦
Most endangered Planes on earth right now. Russia will be frantically throw everything they have at them and the airfields.
Stay save! Use them good and wisely!
Horrido! Good hunting!
Whats the range of these missiles? Does the F-16 outperform the russian one?
First look at actual Ukrainian F-16s. What we can see from this is that they have received Danish f-16MLU. We also see the Danish DID NOT hand over (that we see at least) airframes they had that underwent the ‘have glass’ upgrade of RAM coating. However, we can see they handed over their vipers with the TERMA pylon with active and passive self defense.
Another note is that during Zelensky’s speach we saw 2 vipers flying and 2 on the ground. The ones on the ground ARE NOT REAL. They are fakes. Pretty good ones. If they have plenty of these the Russians will have no real way of telling if they are hitting real airframes or not.
Now let’s look at some other gear/weapons. I can see the pilot is not equipped with the JHMCS, which is what you’d want to take full advantage of the aim-9x high off bore sight capability. Instead these are the aim-9L/M. We can also see aim-120 AMRAAM here. I can tell from the rear aero surfaces that this is 100% not a later variant of AMRAAM. It’s not even AIM-120 c5 or C7. I’m almost certain this is AIM-120B.
All I hear when I read this is “You need to construct additional pylons”
Xtra long haul that day…
What a beauty.
I would love to hear what the Ukrainian Pilots think of these birds.
The AIM-120, I wonder what specific type.
Either way, if Russia are silly enough to by flying around any rubbish too close (like an Su-27 or MiG-29), then the AIM-120 will strike it with ease.
Hopefully Russia has horrible strategy and a bunch of their jets get taken out.
Must feel like Christmas morning for these pilots. Give those invaders hell.
They would 💯 be smart enough not to put all the cards on the table by showing the best equipment up close for photo ops. I also cant imagine much of an impact on the biggest problem(glide bomb launches) if you’re only gonna give them B variants of a2a missiles
Holy moly, this is nice equipment.