Russians are already afraid: Ukraine can achieve a breakthrough with F-16-Business Insider

According to journalists, the Russian Federation is afraid of the appearance of Western fighters in Ukraine, so the airfields are attacked in advance. But it is difficult to "eliminate" air bases, they are restored. Russia, even before the arrival of fighter jets, the F-16 demonstrates its fear of them with its attacks by Ukrainian airfields, experts believe. Business Insider writes about it.

The F-16, which is expected, will rise to the Ukrainian sky this summer, more opportunities than the fighters of Soviet development that Ukraine has been using since the beginning of a full-scale invasion. Ukraine does not report where the fighters will be stored, but after a recent blow to the airfield in the Russian Federation, it was stated that Russian troops were targeted at the airfields where these planes will probably be.

Over the last few weeks, Russian strikes have been struck by several Ukrainian air tights, incl. And in Mirgorod, where, as claimed, five Su-27 fighters were destroyed. Ukraine has confirmed the attack and stated that there are some losses, "but not the ones declared by the enemy. " British military expert and national security advisor Michael Clark said that Russia "is very concerned about the F-16 because of their opportunities, there is no doubt.

" He also believes that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will attack every F-16 base, which will only be found. Rajan Menon, Senior Researcher at the Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, said Russia is focused on advanced west weapons. "I think they are convinced that the more Ukraine there will be Western weapons of all kinds, the more threatening its army will become," he said.

For his part, Tim Robinson, a military aviation specialist from the Royal Aviation Society of the United Kingdom, said that the Russian military is likely to think that the F-16 "will change the ratio of power to our favor. " With the advent of Western fighters, Russian aviation will have to act carefully in the territory of Ukraine, journalists say. The F-16 requires particularly long and runways, as well as protective hangars.

Matthew Seville from the Royal Institute of the UK Armed Forces said that the answer from the Ukrainian point of view is obvious: more means of air defense. In Ukraine, it is reported that underground hangars and bins for the F-16 are built, the planes will also be dispersed at different bases, so that the Russian Federation is more difficult to detect them. Robinson also noted that the destruction of airbazes is not a simple task.

"It is very difficult to completely eliminate the air base," he said, adding that it can also be repaired. To do this, you will have to strike again and again, which will be difficult to take into account a large number of air defense. Recall that Ukrainian drones have recently impressed the most prestigious rocket launcher in the Russian Federation in the cabbage ravine.