Ukraine loses f-16 combat aircraft one after another
Ukraine is losing F-16 combat planes supplied by the United States in unclear circumstances, Military Magazine Watch Publication reports.
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F-16, multipurps combat plane
The Ukraine Air Force reported the loss of one of those planes that last a combat mission on April 12. According to the Ukrainian forces, they had to operate in extremely difficult conditions. The 26 -year -old plane pilot Pavel Ivanov, He did not survive.
A special commission will carry out an investigation into the incident. As the military informant’s telegram channel pointed out, the plane may have fled a friendly fire, since the combat planes supplied to kyiv lack the friend or enemy identification system (IEF).
This was already the second F-16 combat plane shot down in Ukraine.
Yuriy IhnatA representative of the Ukraine Air Force Command, said that the US F-16 published to Ukraine could not change the course of the conflict. Okay for him, they cannot compete with the Su-35 Russians in individual air combat.
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He Ukrainian air The force is the Ukraine Air Force and one of the eight branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU). Its current form was created in 2004 by merging the Ukraine Air Defense Forces in the Air Force. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, many planes left in the Ukrainian territory. After the Ukrainian independence in 1991, the Air Force suffered a chronic subventure, which led to most of its inventory dusting or otherwise inainable. However, the national defense industry of its national defense and its Subsidiary of Antonov can accumulate its oldest plane.
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