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Ukraine’s F-16 Destroys Russian Su-35 in First Air Battle, Backed by Swedish AWACS
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F16 > SU-35 officially!
For years us war machine enthusiasts doing all the napkin math based on stats but now we have a track record
Slava Ukraini!
it was an F-16A, too. even the most updated F-16A Block 15 aircraft are still just… from another era of aircraft entirely. the f-16 may now be demonstrating itself to be the plateau of combat aircraft as it outcompetes more up to date jets and drone combat changes what aerial combat even is. the F-22 and F-35 are more advanced, to be sure, but i'm more and more questioning if that means anything, or more, if that's not actually a major design flaw in more modern craft
We'll need to see in real life (and hopefully that doesn't happen), but in theory an F35 would have fired at a 4(.5) Gen aircraft before it was even detected.