[Music] [Applause] F-16 fighter jets have no chance of winning
against Advanced missile defense systems S400 Triumph Russia if shipped to Ukraine
according to veteran fighter pilot United States us John venal only stealth fighter jet
F35 capable of countering moscow's defensive weapons venal who works as a senior
research fellow on defense policy at the Heritage Foundation claimed to
have flown in F-16 fighter jet and was thus familiar with the aircraft's
combat capabilities additionally h
e interviewed a dozen operational
pilots from the weasel squat for his opinion the purpose of weasel in the early
1990s was to triangulate active surfac air missile Sam radar locate them and then
engage them with Harm's targeting system HDs pods Venable makes the case for
the F-35 in his remarks although weasels are incredibly capable they
require a line of sight to the Target in order to avoid being shot down
by the threat they are meant to eliminate the United States Air Force USAF
vete
ran with 25 years of experience said that the Russian S400 Sam was commissioned 15
years after the F-16 block 50 fighter jet and specifically to counter the superior Fighting
Falcons aircraft during the war F-16 Pilots had to fly close enough to force S400 operators to
turn on their systems revealing themselves to wesel more more than a dozen operational whistle
Pilots I spoke with in the year 2017 agreed that such twin aircraft would result in unsustainable
fighter losses each Express the
opinion that the F-35 a fifth generation fighter created expressly
for that conflict is the only fighter capable of taking on the S400 and avoiding such losses
Venable underlined according to the Eurasian times Russia and Ukraine are at War
right now although Russian weapons and sesam systems were deployed on
both sides its ability to defeat fourth generation fighter aircraft has kept
both nations from routinely employing air power
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