It takes a long time to become proficient, wish they would allow foreign pilots to volunteer.
Big loss; never mind the F-16.
well that sucks..took them years to get to this point and have very few pilots and planes
RIP pilot
Well that fucking sucks
I’m more shocked about the way Juice was killed. Too much balls, too much risk.
War is hell. Rest in Peace.
Pilots are a huge loss, you can replace an aircraft but his talent exp. and lethality can never be replaced.
Rest in peace Hero!
What happend?
Heck, I’m sorry to hear that…. The pilot is a bigger loss than the jet.
The pilot will be remembered by his country for all he did for them.
Ah fuccckkkkkk. Painful to read, but it’s going to happen. UA pilots are sooo valuable. RIP.
Damn it. The loss of the pilot is a huge sadness. It sounds like the capable air defenses were quite busy intercepting these past few Russian drone and missile strikes, so I wonder wonder what happened.
Could have been a freak bird strike for all we know though, so I won’t speculate further as this is a moment to morn the loss. The plane can be replaced, but another hero has given the ultimate sacrifice. RIP.
RIP hero.
RIP pilot. If we let Ukraine fully defend itself (ATACMs for ALL military targets) the danger to aircraft and pilots would be much less. Wake tf up Joe!
Tragic loss of man, machine and morale. Sad on many levels.
I guess the only good thing is russians didn’t downed him, as it was intercepting drones.
So a combination of bad weather and malfunction, if not pilot error? As there are heavy storms in Eastern Europe atm.
A year to wait Few months to fly
Imagine if it had been a russian plane… 2nd best army in ukraine, 3 days to kyiv and all of that. But it’s a US plane so, RIP hero right? xD
It didnt just crash, these planes dont crash. It was shot down maybe by mistake from ukrainian AA
Let’s go all abroad the downvote train! How dare you doubt the ukrainian military?! Pro russia?! No stupid fucks learn to accept mistakes by your heros
Remember losses are expected and unavoidable.
whats with the US-made in every title. copy paste much.
Would not surprise me how many hours are on it, Ukrainians ain’t dumb people by far and their better at rednecking shit.
The downside of the sped up training and harsh need to defend their country. Speed up the deliveries! Make it to November and hopefully the US can elect the right madam president and deliver more from their vast stocks of the machines.
RIP, wonder if this was caused by the short training time on the new airframe?
This should not come as a shock. New pilots(on the F-16) and ground crew. Add to that a newly updated field with new procedures and all in a wartime hurry. The only thing we know for sure is the Russ didn’t get it because if they had they would be loudly crowing.
Shocking news with the loss of the pilot making it doubly so.
Damn, may he rest in peace and condolences to his family.
It happens. It’s a dangerous business.
Russian were possibly setting up a trap on them
Did he not manage to eject himself in time, or did russian use the attack to lure F 16 out in the open? They should never disclose this information or maybe orcs are about to publish a video about this and force the ukrainian government to publish the info.
Horrible. No opportunity to eject in this case?
The first time they were ever used as well! Extrapolating from here is looking grim.
Very sad indeed. I am curious about the cause of the crash. But I am guessing we won’t get the details for a long time.
I read it was a human error. It crashed while intercepting missiles and drones. Let’s wait it out.
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Not good.
Rip that sucks 🙁
Painful to read. Rest in peace!
It takes a long time to become proficient, wish they would allow foreign pilots to volunteer.
Big loss; never mind the F-16.
well that sucks..took them years to get to this point and have very few pilots and planes
RIP pilot
Well that fucking sucks
I’m more shocked about the way Juice was killed. Too much balls, too much risk.
War is hell. Rest in Peace.
Pilots are a huge loss, you can replace an aircraft but his talent exp. and lethality can never be replaced.
Rest in peace Hero!
What happend?
Heck, I’m sorry to hear that…. The pilot is a bigger loss than the jet.
The pilot will be remembered by his country for all he did for them.
Ah fuccckkkkkk. Painful to read, but it’s going to happen. UA pilots are sooo valuable. RIP.
Damn it. The loss of the pilot is a huge sadness. It sounds like the capable air defenses were quite busy intercepting these past few Russian drone and missile strikes, so I wonder wonder what happened.
Could have been a freak bird strike for all we know though, so I won’t speculate further as this is a moment to morn the loss. The plane can be replaced, but another hero has given the ultimate sacrifice. RIP.
RIP hero.
RIP pilot. If we let Ukraine fully defend itself (ATACMs for ALL military targets) the danger to aircraft and pilots would be much less. Wake tf up Joe!
Tragic loss of man, machine and morale. Sad on many levels.
I guess the only good thing is russians didn’t downed him, as it was intercepting drones.
So a combination of bad weather and malfunction, if not pilot error? As there are heavy storms in Eastern Europe atm.
A year to wait
Few months to fly
Imagine if it had been a russian plane… 2nd best army in ukraine, 3 days to kyiv and all of that. But it’s a US plane so, RIP hero right? xD
It didnt just crash, these planes dont crash. It was shot down maybe by mistake from ukrainian AA
Let’s go all abroad the downvote train! How dare you doubt the ukrainian military?! Pro russia?! No stupid fucks learn to accept mistakes by your heros
Remember losses are expected and unavoidable.
whats with the US-made in every title. copy paste much.
Would not surprise me how many hours are on it, Ukrainians ain’t dumb people by far and their better at rednecking shit.
The downside of the sped up training and harsh need to defend their country. Speed up the deliveries! Make it to November and hopefully the US can elect the right madam president and deliver more from their vast stocks of the machines.
RIP, wonder if this was caused by the short training time on the new airframe?
This should not come as a shock. New pilots(on the F-16) and ground crew. Add to that a newly updated field with new procedures and all in a wartime hurry. The only thing we know for sure is the Russ didn’t get it because if they had they would be loudly crowing.
Shocking news with the loss of the pilot making it doubly so.
Damn, may he rest in peace and condolences to his family.
It happens. It’s a dangerous business.
Russian were possibly setting up a trap on them
Did he not manage to eject himself in time, or did russian use the attack to lure F 16 out in the open? They should never disclose this information or maybe orcs are about to publish a video about this and force the ukrainian government to publish the info.
Horrible. No opportunity to eject in this case?
The first time they were ever used as well! Extrapolating from here is looking grim.
Very sad indeed. I am curious about the cause of the crash. But I am guessing we won’t get the details for a long time.
I read it was a human error. It crashed while intercepting missiles and drones. Let’s wait it out.