The Kremlin has continued to signal to the West that the dozens of US F-16 fighter jets currently being prepped to transfer to Ukraine are as good as dead on arrival. Past weeks of media reports have indicated that a handful of European countries will begin sending F-16s by some point this summer, when Ukrainian pilots complete their training on the advanced fighter.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it launched a major attack on an airfield in central Ukraine, which destroyed and damaged seven Ukrainian fighter jets. The location was identified as the Myrhorod airbase in the country’s Poltava region. Two more were reported shot down in a separate operation.
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SEAD. Suppress enemy air defenses. Russians are pretty good at it. There was no air defense response at that base during the attack. Ukraine has probably lost 95% of their air defense capability. That’s why the daily Ukrainian casualties are so high.
Very good news--but keep that equipment coming. The war must be perpetuated at all costs… to the American taxpayer that is.