F-16 fighters "work out" in Russia. How Ukraine will respond to the Russian Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on August 26
In a combined blow to the objects of Ukrainian critical infrastructure, the army of the Russian Federation involved 127 missiles of air, land and maritime base, as well as 109 percussion drones. "Today I started this day with a separate and long conversation with Sirsky: and about the reflection of this missile strike - in detail, and in our response of Russia - we are preparing," - the head of state outlined.
Zelensky also recognized the F-16 involvement in the destruction of Russian missiles during a massive attack and thanked Western partners for providing aircraft. The warlords talked about the use of F-16 fighters and fighting in the Kursk region. In parallel, Politico, citing three sources, wrote that Kiev would provide US Presidential Administration Joe Baiden's list of important goals in Russia for strikes of long -range missiles.
The list will personally be submitted by the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov and the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak during a visit to the United States this week. Based on the presidential statements, we can probably talk about rapid discussion of blows to fighters in the Russian Federation. How many Western partners transferred the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, did not officially announce.
At the end of July, the British newspaper The Times reported six sent planes from the Netherlands, and will soon be replenished from Denmark. The interlocutors of The Economist talked about ten delivered aircraft, and by the end of this year the Armed Forces pilots would fly on 20 fighters. Zelensky in July stated that 128 F-16 aircraft needed and even if 50 pieces were supplied-"it is nothing" to reflect the offensive of the Russian army.
Despite such a small amount of advanced aviation in the Armed Forces, almost all Western allies of Ukraine allowed the use of fighters for blows in Russia, notes in a conversation with focus the executive director of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation, military expert Dmitry Zhmaylo. "We see an extension of the armament line to work on the enemy. Amraam" Air-Borings "rockets appeared, which are beating air targets up to 120 kilometers.
We expect for the F-16 Harpoon missile that beat up to 220 kilometers" , He shared his thought. It is also known that Washington discusses the issues of giving Ukraine high-precision Jassm missiles for use with the F-16. The Jassm-ER version rocket strikes targets up to 925 km. Such dialogues talk about the planning of effective strokes of Western aircraft on Russian facilities, Dmitry Zhmaylo notes.
"Let's recall the Kursk operation: not just so the area of control of the Armed Forces there is expanding and saturated with air defense. This will allow the F-16 aircraft to work accurately on important logistics facilities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," the expert says. The strength of US F-16 aircraft is their ability to carry modern American missiles of different classes on board.
The latest version of the AIM-1220 rocket allows you to beat for the targets up to 180 km in the air combat. In addition, there are Harpoon anti-ship missiles in the F-16 aviation versions, which affect the targets up to 220 kilometers. The classic AGM-65 Maverick Anti-Tank Rocket is not armed in the Armed Forces, because its range is up to 40 kilometers. The use of the projectile is too risky because the F-16 pilots will have to fly too close to the front.
The air expert and leading researcher of the State Aviation Museum of Ukraine Valery Romanenko states that Kiev received the air-air missiles for fighters and can work for purposes in the Russian Federation. Problems are to obtain air-land missiles. The classic AgM-65 Maverick Anti-Tank missile is absent from the Armed Forces because of the target lesions of only 40 km. In this case, the F-16 pilots will have to fly too close to the collision line.
"The winged Jassm rockets are needed, then we will be kings not only in the air but also on the ground. Jassm is the death of airfields and objects of supply of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," Romanenko said. According to the air expert, the anti -ship rockets of Harpoon are not required at this stage of war. F-16 fighters will not rise above the Black Sea, as they will instantly go on Russian missiles.