What Ukraine needs asap to win the war: Military #Aircraft (Сombat Aircraft)
You might have seen that 🇺🇲 is already helping a lot. This is true. #Ukrainians are thankful a lot. But it’s not enough for #Ukraine to protect the whole world from a massive threat to humanity.
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Fighters are needed to establish air superiority, protect critical infrastructure and ground troops, prevent hostile bombing attacks, intercept cruise missiles, counter enemy’s airborne operations and to escort friendly attack aircraft..
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Ground attack aircraft and fighter-bombers are intended to engage enemy’s ground objects, concentrations of troops and vehicles and provide close air support to friendly ground units.
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The General Dynamics #F16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed for USAF. Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,600 aircraft have been built since 1976.
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Although no longer being purchased by the USAF, improved versions are being built for export customers. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation.
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The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: Микоян МиГ-29; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union.
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Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Sukhoi Su-27, was developed to counter new U.S. fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas #F15 Eagle and the General Dynamics #F16 Fighting Falcon.
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🇺🇦needs Western aircraft to put an end to massacre of civilians, achieve victory. It will enable🇺🇦to reclaim territory lost since 24.02. and bring🇷🇺to the negotiating table — not as a superpower throwing ultimatums, but as a neighbor willing to make real concessions.
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However, without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction.
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🔥Gunners of the airborne assault troops and the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine destroyed all attempts of the #Russian occupiers to cross the #SiverskyDonets River.
💔 This is Valeria, the defender of #Mariupol. In just three days, the woman became a bride, wife and, unfortunately, a widow.
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Valeria from "#Azov" and border guard Andriy got married on May 5 on #Azovstal - under explosions and shelling. But in three days the man died.
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"We managed to get married. We managed to be happy. Did not have time to get together. I will love you forever, my Hero," says Valeria. The woman promised her lover to get out of the siege and live for the two of them.
⚡What #Ukraine needs asap to win the war: Air-Defense Systems. @KpsZSU
You might have seen that the US is already helping a lot. This is true. #Ukrainians are thankful a lot. But it’s not enough for 🇺🇦 to protect the whole world from a massive threat to humanity.
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🇷🇺air force is enormous, over 10 times as large as @KpsZSU. Without sufficient anti-aircraft systems, 🇷🇺will have free reign to destroy everything – artillery, command posts, tanks and entire 🇺🇦 cities.
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That is precisely why at the beginning of the invasion 🇷🇺 was trying hard to achieve air dominance. If they succeed, it will just be a matter of time until 🇷🇺wins the war.
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The recently formed special forces unit of #Azov (their brothers-in-arms heroically hold the defense of #Azovstal in #Mariupol) spent two weeks on a combat mission in one of the hottest areas of the #Zaporizhya direction.
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Despite the fact that 🇷🇺 systematically used #aircraft and #artillery, the special forces gave a decent rebuff and occupied new frontiers.
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"The guys showed their best side", - the unit commander "Tooth" told our correspondent.
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