Wunderwaffen is down.
Awaited since Might 2023, the F-16 fighter planes had been the final in a collection of ‘surprise weapons’ that had been anticipated to show the tide of the struggle in Ukraine – however didn’t.
Whereas it’s stunning in itself that the much-awaited airplane could be destroyed in its very first mission, after we examine the way it may have occurred, it turns into much more disturbing.
The incident occurred throughout the August twenty sixth mass air raid over Ukraine, the place Geranium drones and quite a lot of missiles – together with supersonic Khinzals – introduced destruction to all areas of Ukraine.
The Russian Federation sources declare the airplane was hit on the bottom throughout refueling – in all probability making ready to scramble out of hurt’s manner.
Ukrainian sources, for his or her half, declare it crashed whereas on a flight attempting to convey down attacking drones.
Some outlying claims have the fighter shot down in an ambush by a Russian Su-57.
What everybody appears to agree is that the F-18’s crash or in any other case technique of destruction killed veteran Ukrainian pilot Oleskyi Mês.
However what appears essentially the most disturbing is a model of the occasions floated by a Ukrainian deputy of the Vekhovna Rada Maryana Bezuhla:
“In response to my info, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot (squadron commander) Alexey ‘Moonfish’ Mes was shot down by a Patriot air protection missile system because of an absence of coordination between models. The reviews famous that he ‘misplaced management’.
The occasion occurred throughout some of the highly effective air assaults by the Russians on August 26.
Warfare is struggle, such episodes are doable. However the tradition of lies within the Ukrainian Air Power Command, in addition to in different senior army headquarters, results in the truth that the army decision-making system doesn’t enhance primarily based on truthful, persistently collected analytics, however worsens and even collapses, as is occurring within the Pokrovsky course. And never a single basic has been punished. Normal Oleshchuk stays in workplace,” stated Maryana Bezuglaya.”
As for US sources, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh has confirmed the lack of the airplane, however refused to touch upon whether or not it was certainly a Patriot that introduced the airplane down.
Simplicius on Substack:
“It’s additionally fairly doable—and actually in all probability extra believable than the official story—that the F-16 didn’t gloriously go down swinging, after heroically taking pictures down a number of Russian drones and missiles, however that it was infact destroyed on the bottom simply because the Russian MOD had said. You’ll recall throughout the large-scale strikes days in the past, the Russian MOD stated two F-16s had been doubtlessly destroyed of their hangars.”
‼️ “The F-16 was shot down by a Patriot air protection system throughout the large missile assaults on August 26 because of an absence of coordination between Ukrainian Air Power models”
— Bezugla, Individuals’s Deputy of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9rY2n8q2wU
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 29, 2024
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