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Video of the arrival of a search and rescue team on a Mi-8 helicopter to a Russian Ka-52 helicopter shot down earlier from a Ukrainian MANPADS. The video also shows a Russian Mi-28 helicopter covering the work of the rescue team along the perimeter of the field. As a result of the Ukrainian attack on the Russian Ka-52 helicopter, the helicopter's navigator unfortunately died, the crew commander ejected and was evacuated by the Russian search and rescue team.
F-16s already touched down in Ukraine – Head of Ukraine’s Air Force
Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Head of Ukraine’s Air Force, has said that Ukrainian pilots have experience operating Western-made F-16 fighter jets, which have already touched down on Ukraine’s airfields.
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F-16s already touched down in Ukraine – Head of Ukraine's Air Force
STANISLAV POHORILOV — Saturday, 19 August 2023, 23:15
Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Head of Ukraine’s Air Force
Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Head of Ukraine’s Air Force, has said that Ukrainian pilots have experience operating Western-made F-16 fighter jets, which have already touched down on Ukraine’s airfields.
Source: Mykola Oleshchuk on Ukraine’s national 24/7 newscast
Quote from Oleshchuk: "An F-16 jet has already been to Ukraine. It has touched down on our airfields, we’ve held joint training with F-16 pilots, and so we do have experience operating the F-16 jets. I think this is crucial."
Details: Oleshchuk also said that Ukraine is currently preparing its runways [for F-16 jets]. "We are making the necessary alterations, improving the surface, improving our airfields’ infrastructure, and building new defence facilities," he explained.
"So I think we will be able to bring these aircraft to Ukraine as soon as we acquire them," Oleshchuk concluded.
Previously: In April 2023, Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, said that US-made fighter jets had touched down on Ukraine’s airfields even before Russia’s full-scale invasion, in 2012 and 2018. "We have dozens of different airfields – operational and regular ones – that can be used for these aircraft," Ihnat said.
Background:
- Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said earlier on 19 August that Ukrainian pilots have started training to operate Western-made F-16 fighter jets, with a minimum training period of 6 months.
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The Russian military aircraft controller spoke about his combat work, aiming Su-25SM aircraft and Ka-52 helicopters at targets in the Krasnolimansky and Svatovsky directions in Ukraine.
A Russian soldier showed a Ukrainian gun truck with a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun. The term "gun truck" first appeared during the Vietnam War when the US Transportation Corps faced heavy truck losses and began armoring and arming trucks. But the very fact of installing various weapons on trucks was recorded earlier - this happened back in the years of the First World War. The video shows a captured gun truck of the Ukrainian army, made on the basis of a Zil 131 truck with a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun installed.