Ukraine has been requesting deliveries of the jets for a year, as it seeks to break a near deadlock in the conflict’s air war
Ukraine’s imminent deployment of F-16 fighter jets will not be a “silver bullet” in the war against Russia, an expert has warned.
Ukraine has been requesting deliveries of the jets for a year, as it seeks to break a deadlock in the two-year conflict’s air war and push back advancing Russian forces. An F-16 fleet would represent a major upgrade on Ukraine’s relatively small stock of Soviet-era warplanes, estimated to number around 100.
The air battle has been in a state of parity for the conflict’s duration, with neither Ukraine not Russia controlling the skies for their own ends. “The robust Russian Integrated Air Defense System makes establishing air superiority over the entire occupied territory a difficult feat.
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