“F-16” jets sent to Ukraine are in the crosshairs of Russian missiles

According to the report of the international group of Fars news agency, following the US green light to send F-16 fighters to Ukraine, some news sources announced the number of these fighters to be 70.

A senior US administration official said that US President Joe Biden informed the G-7 leaders that he supports a joint program with allies to train Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16 fighter jets.

Reuters reported on Saturday that Portugal, Great Britain, France, America, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium have announced their readiness to transfer F-16 fighters to Ukraine. Following this issue, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Groshko warned on Saturday that Western countries will face “great dangers” if they supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.

He expressed this warning in response to a question about the consequences of providing these fighters to Ukraine, which wants to receive them from NATO countries.

According to this report, aviation experts believe that if Ukraine receives F-16 fighters from the United States, these jets will not last long and Russia will easily target them.

The American website “Business Insider” quoted an aviation expert who wrote that the F-16 fighter is fragile and needs special air bases, and these bases can be identified and targeted by Russia. Justin Bronk, an expert at the Russian think tank, said: “The F-16 fighter has a large air intake under the nose that sucks everything directly from the ground into it. “So jets need very clean and good air bases.”

“A lot of work needs to be done to clean up the old Ukrainian runways enough to safely use the F-16 without damaging the engines,” Brunk said. In addition, many airports in Ukraine are too short for the use of this fighter.

Bronk added that such movements are clearly visible to Russian satellites. He said: “All Ukrainian air bases and the entire country are in the crosshairs of Russian ballistic and cruise missiles.”

The American website “Defense News” also wrote based on its estimates that Ukraine may receive 70 F-16 warplanes. Ukraine has told its western allies that F-16 fighters are more effective than the current fighters of this country. Poland and Slovakia have so far provided 27 MiG-29 fighter jets to help the Ukrainian army in the war against Russia.

At the same time as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, the mass production of the Russian fighter “MiG-35” has been discussed more and more in the Russian media. There is still no information about the number of Russian MiG-35, but according to some leaked reports, 6 fighters of this type are being produced. MiG-35 has many advantages. This fighter will be equipped with an active electronic scanning array because the sooner the enemy is detected, the faster it will be destroyed (more details).

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