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F-16 – why fighters in Ukraine are not used at full capacity
Aircraft need to be equipped with more powerful weapons, noted Igor Romanenko.
Ukraine needs more powerful weapons for the transferred F-16 fighters so they can strike hostile targets on the ground. This opinion was expressed on Ukrainian radio by retired lieutenant general, ex-deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Romanenko.
According to him, now Ukrainian F-16s can mainly perform only air defense missions.
“They can destroy cruise missiles, unmanned attack vehicles, the same suicide bombers. In principle, they can also work against enemy aircraft. But the aviation assets that are provided to them are missiles with infrared …