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It's sort of a shit design for 2023 tbh.
Sounds like Ukraine got a new air defense system... Maybe they moved a Patriot battery?
The F-16 was even outclassed by the J-17 in the recent Pakistani Operation Indus Shield 2023 exercises according to recent reports.
Like I said to the other guy, if that's even true, it doesn't matter because Russia doesn't field the J-17.
It's in the new issue of Air Force Monthly.
Yeah, that's the theory. Russia had been using the planes to bomb a Ukrainian beachhead from an area that would keep them out of range for the Soviet-era systems Ukraine has in that area, so Ukraine moved a patriot system there, switched off. When the Russians flew in and they got detected on long range radar, they turned on the patriot and fired.