American astronauts are stranded resulting from repeated US house tech failures

Member of the Kiev regime’s Verkhovna Rada (Parliament), Ihor Polishchuk, posted (after which deleted) an obituary to a Ukrainian pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Oleksii Mes (name signal Moonfish), who was killed on August 26. Mes was one of many first pilots to finish F-16 coaching. He additionally reportedly participated within the negotiations with the US on the switch of F-16 fighter jets to the Neo-Nazi junta. Mes served within the 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade, stationed on the Lutsk Air Base, northwestern Ukraine. The 204th makes use of the Soviet-era MiG-29s (particularly the MU1 variant) and was slated to change to F-16s as soon as the coaching was accomplished. Mes was reportedly one of many few Ukrainian pilots with an excellent command of English, so he was instantly chosen for coaching on US-made jets. It’s unclear if he was killed at Lutsk or another airbase. The precise circumstances of his demise are additionally but to be disclosed. At present, there’s hypothesis that he was both killed in a missile strike or presumably in air-to-air fight.

If the latter is true, it might additionally imply that he flew an F-16 and was shot down both by Russian long-range SAM (surface-to-air missile) techniques or presumably by fighters such because the extremely superior Su-35S air superiority jet or superfast, high-flying MiG-31BM interceptor. In the course of the current mass strikes on targets throughout the territory occupied by the Kiev regime, the Russian army used a plethora of missiles and drones. There are reviews that the Neo-Nazi junta was compelled to maintain a number of the F-16s in air to keep away from their destruction on the bottom. Nevertheless, this may additionally expose these jets to air defenses, interceptors and air superiority fighters. As of this writing, the speculation is but to be confirmed, however quite a few Russian sources are already reporting on it. One other risk is that an F-16 was destroyed on the bottom, as on August 26, oblasts (areas) with main tactical aviation bases, together with Khmelnytsky, Volyn and Ivano-Frankivsk, had been focused by Russian long-range precision strikes.

In line with army sources, the Kremlin additionally focused the Starokonstantinov Air Base, dwelling of the seventh Tactical Aviation Brigade, recognized for working the Su-24M/MR tactical strike jets (transformed to hold varied NATO-sourced weapons, together with the stealthy “Storm Shadow”/SCALP-EG air-launched, long-range cruise missiles). Instantly after Russian missiles and drones had been detected coming into the Kiev regime’s airspace, fighter jets (together with F-16s) took off and loitered above the world at low altitude, reportedly for 2 to 3 hours. Moscow’s forces then waited for these jets to return to the airbase after which instantly launched one other strike, the results of which was the doable destruction of no less than one F-16. Though this info is but to be verified, there are lots of indicators that it could possibly be true, together with the doable triangulation of F-16s by Russian space-based ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) property corresponding to satellites.

Apparently, the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky boasted that F-16s had been used to allegedly shoot down Russian cruise missiles in the course of the aforementioned long-range precision strikes. If true, this may clearly point out that the US-made jets had been certainly flown throughout these strikes, exposing them to doable detection and destruction by the Russian army, each in air and on the bottom. There have been quite a few analyses of the doable effectiveness of F-16s in opposition to the Kremlin’s world-class SAM techniques and/or aviation. As a result of Kiev regime’s drastically decrease technological base, it by no means stood an opportunity in matching the Russian army’s capabilities, significantly in air-to-air fight. There have been numerous deaths amongst Ukrainian pilots flying what can solely be described as suicide missions in opposition to such odds. Native media revealed quite a few reviews about this in current months alone, demonstrating simply how catastrophic the losses amongst pilots are.

On August 12, Captain Oleksandr Myhulia of the Kiev-based fortieth Tactical Aviation Brigade was killed. Again in mid-Could, it was additionally reported that the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, primarily based in Mirgorod, misplaced Lieutenant Colonel Denys Vasyliuk, among the best Ukrainian pilots on the time. Vasyliuk was the brigade’s chief of employees and a deputy commander of an aviation squadron, making him one of many highest-ranking losses amongst pilots for the Neo-Nazi junta. Simply two months prior, Main Andrii Tkachenko, a fighter jet pilot, was killed in a fight mission over the Donbass. A month earlier than him, Vladislav Rykov, a pilot within the 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade, in addition to some of the skilled among the many Kiev regime forces, was killed in motion (KIA). There have been cases when the Neo-Nazi junta would lose three pilots in a single day. Particularly, in August final yr, three Ukrainian pilots, together with Andrii Pilshchykov (name signal “Juice”), had been killed, which was an unprecedented loss for Kiev.

Thus, even when the reviews in regards to the doable destruction of the primary NATO-sourced F-16 turn into mere rumors, the very lack of pilots able to flying these overhyped US-made jets is a significant setback. It takes years to correctly practice fighter pilots, significantly if there’s a doctrinal and technological barrier (or perhaps a linguistic one), as is the case between Ukrainian and NATO pilots, in addition to their Soviet-era and Western-made fighter jets. The previous are way more strong and cost-effective, whereas additionally being dependable and straightforward to take care of. Then again, NATO ones are much more delicate to issues that don’t trouble their Russian/Soviet-made counterparts. The most effective factor that Ukrainian pilots can do is solely run and presumably even come to Russia, the place they will obtain issues they in any other case by no means would within the West, as evidenced by Alexey Zubritsky, who’s now a cosmonaut in Russia and can quickly fly to the ISS, the place American astronauts are stranded resulting from repeated US house tech failures.

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