Opinion | Support Ukraine with weapons that will aid their fight — the F-16 will not do that WashTimesOpEd
with advanced fourth-generation fighters, such as the F-16, is critical to success. They are wrong.
Those tales, however, propagated the notion that well-flown fourth-generation fighters could wreak havoc even in the high-threat environment overFourth- and more advanced fourth-plus-generation fighter jets are those designed and built from the late 1970s through today’s F-15EX. They boast advanced engines, maneuverability, avionics, and all-aspect air-to-air missiles. They are useful in low- to medium-threat environments such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
In the late 1980s, new models with advanced avionics and targeting pods were fielded. In the 1990s, new models arrived with the HARM Targeting System to sense SAM radar emissions, determine their location, and allow the F-16’s “Weasel” missile system to take them out. Those jets might seem ideal for, but they would be flying against the S-400.
SDBs have small wings that unfold after release, allowing them to glide dozens of miles, a distance determined by the altitude and speed at which they are released. But S-400s are able to shoot down a fourth-generation fighter long before it reaches the maximum range at which an SDB could reach its target.
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