F-16 pilot explains how Ukrainian forces counter Russian guided bombs and their carriers

F-16 fighter jets supplied to Ukraine by its companions can’t get shut sufficient to destroy carriers of Russian guided aerial bombs. Nonetheless, the defence forces are engaged on a complete strategy to counter these weapons.

Supply: an F-16 pilot in an interview to the Air Drive Command

Quote: "Our major focus proper now’s on Russian use of guided aerial bombs. Not all instructions are totally lined, however we do our greatest to finish missions in these areas. We perceive that we can’t get shut sufficient to destroy the carriers of those bombs, however a posh effort is underway. This contains digital warfare measures to disrupt the operation of those bombs, optimising the digital warfare surroundings and enhancing the detection area for each the carriers and the guided bombs themselves.

We’re totally conscious that the present variety of Western-made air defence techniques is inadequate, which is why the problem of accelerating their provide has been raised a number of occasions.

In the mean time, in my view, some fronts are affected by this scarcity just because it’s bodily unattainable to arrange this course of.

Our defence forces are doing extremely onerous work there, continuously countering each the carriers and the weapons themselves."

Background:

• Colonel Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Division of the Ukrainian Air Drive Command, mentioned that the F-16 fighter jets supplied to Ukraine can’t totally compete with Russia’s Su-35s in aerial fight.
• On 6 February, Ukrainian air defence items intercepted a Russian guided aerial bomb over the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia. The Air Drive identified that this was not the primary occasion of Ukrainian forces efficiently capturing down such a weapon.
• In an interview launched by the Air Drive, Viking, a pilot of a Ukrainian Su-27 plane, defined that there isn’t any "magic wand" to counter Russian guided aerial bombs, which Russia makes use of 10 occasions greater than Ukraine. The pilot emphasised the necessity for a complete strategy to tackling these weapons: air defence techniques, radars, fighter jets and missiles able to hitting targets at a variety of a minimum of 100 km are wanted.
• Ihnat beforehand reported that Russia dropped nearly 40,000 guided bombs on Ukrainian territory in 2024 alone.

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