🇺🇸 F-16 is one of the most versatile air planes in the world.

🛩 F-16 air-to-air capabilities are very good, especially when using late AIM-120D AMRAAMs variante.

It has potent air-to-ship capabilities using the AGM-84 Harpoon (or AGM-119 Penguin) and especially AGM-158 LRASM which in combination with Neptune coastal batteries make an additional headache for the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

🇺🇦 If the SCALP Naval and the Storm Shadow will be adapted on the F-16 this will considerably worsen the problems for the Russian forces and above all for the bases in Crimea.

These days, even more capable weapons like the JDAM, JSOW glide bomb and JASSM cruise missile are available too.

🔹 Difficulty will be in targeting for the Harpoon, Vipers radar not sufficient to employ Harpoon at its max range. Lack of AEW, ISR assets and other platforms to link data with will handicap these fighters, It Is likely that it will be complemented via datalink with NATO's ISR.

It can be said that just the F-15E, 4.5 gen and 5th fighters can parallel or beat it in versatility.
SEAD/DEAD is not carrying a HARM. For example F-35 has advanced electronic attack capabilities and a much better ESM suite to locate radars and SAMs but can’t do SEAD/DEAD operation (Initial operational capability for SEAD with the AGM-88G is planned for 2023). But can destroy them with GBUs at closer distance.

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian sources report that a russian Su-35 fighter jet has been shot down by Ukraine over the black sea.

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🇦🇲 Armenian prime minister says Armenia will leave the CSTO if it considers it an incompetent organisation.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 According to the governor of Belgorod Oblast, a sabotage group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered in Grayvoron district and occupied the village of Kozinka.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Belgorod Regional Officials have stated that Ukrainian Forces have partially captured 4 settlements:

👉Kozinka
👉Glotovo
👉Gora-Podol
👉Grayvoron

He also said that "the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, together with the Border Service, the Russian Guard and the FSB, are taking the necessary measures to eliminate the sabotage group"

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine's military intelligence agency says that the Legion of Freedom of Russia have launched an operation in the Belgorod region to liberate territories and protect Ukrainian civilians.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Situation according to pro-ukrainian sources at 14.00 (UTC+1)

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🇷🇺 A russian Mi-8 helicopter was reportedly shotdown near the border

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 The 24th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed that a Mi-24 was shotdown.
No footage nor place and time was given.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Rybar confirms the presence of ukrainian/free russian forces inside the Culture House

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 New footage from the Belgorod area.
Other unidentified units are in the operational area with the Free Russian Legion

NOTE: The soldier patch is not the one used by the Foward Observation Group

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🇷🇺 All the anti-air bunkers in smaller villages outside Belgorod seems to be closed.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 The footage has been released.
This is the second loss of an helicopter in the area today

(c)

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Some reports claim that the free Russian legion seized the police station of Grayvoron

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 It appears Russian Forces have blown up the bridge behind Grayvoron.
If this tourns out true, the russian units on the right of the river will be effectively cut out from the main russian force.
This would also mean that the forces in the area aren't able to stop the Ukrainian/Free Russian Forces as now.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Channels near the Free Russian Legion confirm that the bridge of Grayvoron have been blown up.
The evacuation of civilians from the city is now impossibile

(c)

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Yusov (representative of the SBU): russians are starting to evacuate their nuclear weapons from the nearby nuclear storage facility (object 1150, 7 km from Grayvoron).

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