“What Ukraine needs right now”: Poland to provide Ukraine with scarce F-16 missiles to shoot down jet-powered drones
The aid package will also include aviation equipment, Poland’s deputy defense minister says.
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Ukraine’s Swedish radar planes have flown inside Russian missile range for six months. None has been shot down.
Kyiv said nothing until this week. The planes can see 450 km, and Russia's best missile flies nearly as far.
Ukraine’s F-16s are so short of Western missiles that pilots fall back on jet’s built-in M61A1 Vulcan cannon, which risks killing civilians below
The AIM missiles the jets are rationing are the same ones defending Kyiv from the ground.
Ukraine chooses three Western fighters to build its air force around. One of them can fly again from stretch of road in 15 to 20 minutes
The Air Force settled on them after weighing cost, logistics, and repair speed.
Romania destroys a sea drone and finds aerial drone debris on its soil amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine
Both incidents occurred during the same overnight barrage that also triggered air defense activations in Poland and Moldova.
Warsaw confirms a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile overshot Ukraine and hit a field in Poland
The Kh-101 flew across Ukraine and traveled about 95 km inside a NATO member before it fell.
Ukraine loses another F-16 to onboard emergency
Ukraine lost an F-16 on 29 July during a mission to intercept Russian air targets.
Romania hits cost trap Ukraine spent years escaping: $400,000 missiles against $20,000 drones
Romania spent about €1.5 million downing three Russian drones over three days, mostly on F-16 missiles.
Romanian F-16 shoots down second drone in 2 days after another incursion over airspace near Ukraine
Romania intercepted and destroyed a second drone near the Ukrainian border, continuing a new policy of shooting down unauthorized aircraft entering its airspace.
“First time”: Ukrainian troops joined Belgium’s National Day parade in Brussels
Ukrainian soldiers marched at the head of the foreign units in Brussels on 21 July.
Ukraine is building a flight school under fire—and the simulator delivery shows how fast
Scarce jets, contested skies, no fixed base that can stay hidden. Ukraine's answer: train pilots on Ukrainian soil, in equipment that moves.
Three F-16s and a Patriot battery teamed up to kill Russia’s best fighter
The two systems each have a weakness against Russian jets. Working together—one seeing, the other shooting—they cancelled both out.
For three years, Russia glide-bombed Ukraine in escorted pairs. Now Ukraine is glide-bombing Russia the same way.
High-flying escorts are protecting Ukraine's glide bombers from Russian jets. It's a familiar tactic.
Take off in formation, fly low, navigate by terrain—Ukraine’s F-16 trainees finished a UK course Russia helped design
RAF instructors said the trainees' aircraft handling was solid from the first 10 sorties, with the months-long course shaped by jamming realities on the front line.
Belgium and Spain just committed €1 billion each to Ukraine. Here’s what they buy
Belgium is sending more F-16s.
Promised in 2023. Grounded in Belgium. Norway’s F-16s still haven’t reached Ukraine.
A Western advisor says the jets were urgently needed this winter – and could have saved lives.
Ukraine kept the F-16 missile shortage secret for months — sources say pilots were flying with rotary cannons as Russia ramped up winter strikes
The nearly month-long AIM-9 drought forced dangerous daytime-only sorties.
Ukraine’s Mirage 2000 fighters finally go on the offensive
Ukraine's speedy ex-French fighters have been on the defensive for an entire year. That may be changing. But are there enough bombs?
Why AIM missiles work for Ukraine: EW-resistant, “fire-and-forget,” effective against drones and cruise missiles
Ukraine uses three AIM missile types: Sidewinder (35 km, infrared), AMRAAM (up to 180 km, "fire-and-forget"), and Sparrow (70 km, semi-active radar).
US, Dutch veterans reportedly join international F-16 squadron defending Kyiv, Ukrainian air force denies this
Foreign pilots are pros at using high-tech sensors used to detect and target Russian missiles