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A video taken during the summer of 2022 shows the Kiev regime pilot Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Fischer, who claimed that the F-16’s performance is significantly inferior to that of the Su-27. He based the assessment on his personal experience in flying both aircraft.
Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
In recent weeks, the Kiev regime intensified its efforts to acquire Western fighter jets to replace its rapidly dwindling inventory of Soviet-era aircraft. In the immediate aftermath of the Soviet dismantlement, Ukraine was left with one of the world’s largest and most advanced fighter fleets, including the then nearly brand-new Su-27 “Flanker”, one of the best air superiority aircraft ever designed. And while the ensuing post-Soviet economic collapse essentially halted any modernization efforts, Ukraine remained one of the leading European countries in heavyweight fighter jet deployment.
However, efforts to sustain (much less modernize) the country’s fleet came to nothing after the political West conducted the infamous 2014 Maidan coup and brought the Neo-Nazi junta to power. The new illegal foreign-backed authorities had trouble even with the basic maintenance, further exacerbating the Ukrainian Air Force’s troubles. Decades of deteriorating conditions for pilots and aircraft were now made even worse, as the much-needed defense ties with Russia were cut, denying the UAF access to enough spare parts and other assets necessary to keep its fleet airworthy. Hundreds of airframes were placed in long-term storage, as the country was struggling with providing funds and resources to sustain the massive Soviet legacy it was left with.
Over the next 8 years, the coup authorities conducted a thorough purge, crushing any opposition to the transformation of the country’s military into an armed wing of the Neo-Nazi regime. Only after this process was completed, the political West decided to fund sustainment and modernization efforts. However, despite years and billions of dollars invested in this endeavor, the Kiev regime forces were completely outclassed by the VKS (Russian Aerospace Forces), with Moscow fielding incomparably more capable fighter jets, including the Su-35S, a deeply modernized design based on the Su-27 still used in Ukraine, in addition to other platforms such as the superfast, high-flying MiG-31 and the brand-new Su-57.
Within only a week since the beginning of the special military operation, the vast majority of the Kiev regime’s air assets have either been destroyed or forced into hiding as the Russian military established air dominance and targeted most airbases under the junta’s control. There were still pilots trying to face the VKS, but their efforts were mostly in vain, as they would often get shot down from hundreds of kilometers away, either by Russian fighter jets or the Eurasian giant’s second-to-none long-range SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems. Moscow has both qualitative and quantitative advantages, as many of its pilots accumulated precious combat experience, including a record holder with over 800 combat sorties, a truly astounding achievement.
With the remnants of the former Ukrainian Air Force virtually wiped out, the Kiev regime is desperate to rebuild it with Western-made aircraft. However, the Neo-Nazi junta is faced with severe difficulties to achieve this goal. Logistics, training, finances and, most of all, time are the main issues preventing this. As the Russian Aerospace Forces dominate the skies, Kiev regime pilots are faced with almost certain death if they were to go up against the Eurasian giant. The Neo-Nazi junta’s intention to acquire Western fighter jets, particularly the F-16, certainly doesn’t make the Ukrainian pilots feel any safer. On the contrary, many are worried that the lightweight US-made aircraft is completely outclassed by Russian heavyweight fighter jets, such as the aforementioned Su-35, MiG-31 and Su-57.
A video taken during the summer of 2022 shows the Kiev regime pilot Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Fischer, who claimed that the F-16’s performance is significantly inferior to that of the Su-27. He based the assessment on his personal experience in flying both aircraft. “…I flew the F-16 the first day and loved it. However, in terms of performance, the Su-27 is significantly superior,” Fischer admitted. He then added that the Russian-designed jet has better flight performance in every category, including speed and maneuverability, giving it an incomparable advantage in dogfights and WVR (within visual range) engagements. The pilot concluded his remarks with an assertion that the Su-27 is “the king of dogfighting”.
Another Ukrainian pilot made similar conclusions:
The maneuvering performance of the F-16 do not allow performing such manoeuvres as on the Su-27
It should be noted that the Su-27 jets in service with the Kiev regime forces are decades behind the newer generation derivatives used by the VKS, which operates significantly more advanced versions of the jet, such as the Su-30 and Su-35, with the latter essentially being a so-called “fifth-generation” aircraft in every aspect bar stealth. If the Ukrainian pilots themselves consider the basic Su-27 superior to F-16, then the US-made fighter stands no chance against the much more modern “Flanker” iterations used by Russia. The Su-27 jets in service with the Kiev regime were decimated by the VKS and Lieutenant Colonel Fischer himself seems to have met his untimely end flying precisely this aircraft.
Various sources, both Russian and Ukrainian, claim that the pilot was killed on June 5, 2022. Apparently, Fischer was piloting his Su-27P1M when he was shot down over the town of Orekhov in the Zaporozhye oblast (region). There is conflicting information on how exactly he was downed, with some sources claiming that his “Flanker” was struck by a Russian air-to-air missile, while others insist that the Kiev regime’s air defenses shot him down in a friendly-fire incident. Either way, Fischer’s fate, as well as his assertion that the F-16 is inferior to the Su-27 already fielded by the Kiev regime forces serve as a stark warning to other Ukrainian pilots that no Western-made jet will give them greater chances of survival, let alone an actual advantage over their Russian rivals.
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Right, right, and Lada car is better them Mercedes. Everything russian is better than Western staff. Funny how today russia can use the same propaganda they used during cold war time…
You seem to love digesting this propaganda, as you are here day and night commenting and sharing. Lil SF groupie
Z motherfucker!
Russians are objective and for relatively few things they justifiably say that they have done better than the “collective Western world”. On the other hand, I have not yet heard of a thing in which the “collective Western world” is not better than everyone else on this planet, in this galaxy and in the entire universe! Well, speaking of objectivity…
It’s official in the woke UK propaganda media to say that the word ‘ objective ‘ is racist, LOL.
Were you alive when Foxbat arrived?
The Su-27 is an air-superiority fighter plane, like the United States F-15.
The F-16 is a multirole fighter bomber, so it could never go up against a Su-27 in a dogfight.
The Su-27 is analogous to 1000cc Motorbike, where a F-16 would be like a 125cc Motorbike.
Russia will shoot them all down then you can close the airfield
Perhaps a us mercenary operated the ukrainian air defence and new this guy had criticised the us plane. Had he said that the us plane is the greatest thing he ever saw and the russian tech is stoneage in comparison perhaps he would still be training on a us jet somewhere today and had not been downed in a sowjet era one…
But i still do not get how it is possible that countries deliver weapons into a country under attack. Any ship, train or plane bringing arms into yugoslavia, iraq or lybia would have been immidiatly attacked by the us forces. Syria is the only different place but in syria the us at least officially only fight isis and not the country. And they still attack iranian deliverys together with their israeli allies.
No matter if the russians do not want to do it or can’t do it the result is the same. Just think for one moment the russians and chinese anouncing that they want to help syria reclaim all territory and give them the weapons to hit any attacker. How fast would all of nato and israel as well as the gulf countries attack syria openly to stop any deliverys.
I tell you why they don’t do this. The tacit (or not so tacit) agreement is if they would do that, atlantic terror organization will command its piano-faggot to bomb Moscow or St Petersburg. Period. I guarantee you if somehow the Cocalansky nazi launch 1 missile into one of those cities, Russia will hit those deliveries everywhere.
Depends on the endgame. EU is depleting weapon stocks and are crashing into recession, and Russia has a very short supply line and the economy is doing just fine. So no hurry.
They bring in weapons in covered civilian trucks. So it must be difficult to reliably pick out which ones are carrying weapons and which are genuine civilian supplies. I think it’s a bit dubious under the Geneva Convention but perhaps they stick on some Nazi bumper stickers to get round it.
The points that you raise are quite correct. For one thing, the Russian Federation’s fleet of fighter jets has been modernized very well and effectively, and in a one on one dogfight scenario with just about any immediately available competitor in uncontrolled airspace the Russian fighter will likely win. But, there is more to the problem that Kiev would face trying to field western warplanes against the Russian Federation, and that is what these platforms are actually designed to do, and how they actually achieve their battlefield control tasks. They , and their weapons systems, control systems, command and control structures, strategic and tactical execution concepts, are not geared towards an arm wrestling competition. They have to be part of an integrated system consisting of land, air, and space based military capabilities, and that on territory under real control of the western forces. Kiev has absolutely no hope whatsoever of this ever being a fact for them, none whatsoever.
“és a nyugati erők valódi ellenőrzése alatt álló területen” Ukrajnának egy ilyen területe van, a Magyarországtól bitorolt Kárpátalja, amely területet Putyin még nem támadott. A Munkácsi repülőtér alkalmas lehet a kapott repülőgépek viszonylag biztonságos állomásoztatására, mindaddig amíg az oroszok feladva eddigi kíméletüket, nem támadják a településekkel sűrűn körbevett repülőteret.
If some idiot donates ten Eurofighters to Kiev, there will be ten piles of burning metal on the ground in very short order. Not only because they don’t know how to use them, but because it wouldn’t matter even if they did.
That’s a pretty big part of the reason that Moscow’s decision to enforce its red line on preventing nato infrastructure from becoming fully operational in Ukraine, though the decision was a forced one, was necessary and correct, and could no longer be avoided.
Until mid Jan 2023 at least 117 Russian pilots have been killed in Ukraine related to combat flying mission. These are confirmed deaths but real figures are higher.
Ok Baghdad Bob
Meanwhile until mid Jan 2023 at least 315 nazi pilots have been killed in KUKrainii.
Not only combat aircraft but also pilots of chopper and transport aircraft. Also likely not all combat related deaths?
But each one shot down 999 Ukraine fighters
Wrong point. That’s not about planes anymore, both sides achieved almost similar characteristics and features, it’s about MISSILES !!!! Who’s have more, better and mostly who have the longest range. Even a MIG 19 can kill an F16 if loaded with competent missiles. And when say competent that means also ready to defeat enemy last ECW systems.
Also who replaces losses quicker
Stating what we all know already. And there better looking to. I love Russian jet fighters
And those Su-27 will be shot down by surface to air missiles the minute they enter Ukrainian controlled territory. This article is boasting about something that absolutely nobody cares about.
russian pilots must even use GPS because glonass doesn’t function properly hehe
The main purpose of these Western jets is to line the pockets of the billionaires who rake in the profits from the MIC.
Zrejme ozaj vedia o čom hovoria. Takže ak budú Ruské Su 27 vyhrávať vo vzájomných súbojoch z F16 tak nech sa debili zo západu nečudujú.
US aviation out perform Russian aviation in every aspect. Even the Russians know this. Russia is not even trying to beat the US with aircrafts but instead heavily invests in Air defense systems in order to deny US air superiority.
Oh wait.. the truth hurts. Butthurt SF deleting this comment in 3…2…1…
Sounds like a pilot that is trained on Soviet aircrafts and soviet tactics. They often think everything is about maneuverability within visual range (dog fighting) and doesn’t understand the new capabilities and tactics new western aircraft adds. This is also why they should train new pilots rather then train old on new aircraft since they will fall back in to old habit in a stressed situation. If new capabilities isn’t used then a new aircraft won’t add any new capabilities.
western penis inferior–I prefer mulatto 3-4 cm
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How ukraine wished they had Russian modern gear,but they are too stupid for that either way theyre gonna get it anyway,what they get for selling out their heritage,too bad then =Z=
Destroying Natostan and its expensive yankee junk in rump Ukrapland is more “green” than having to blow up all of Urupp.
I do indeed hope Greta Retard likes it too.
He gave his statement during the summer of 2022 but was shot down and killed in May 2022 ? Nice trick.
The whole Russian military doctrine and narrative is just big Potemkin Village. Liars are trying to hide their own military blunders and shortcomings.
As with any weapon systems sent to Kiev they were not meant to achieve victory against Russia, although there are some dillussional enough to promote that fantasy, the weapons were meant as a provocation, to get Russia into a “tit for tat” strategy that would potentially lead to some type of nuclear incident.
The F-16 has been around for decades. It is a proven design, and capable. I happen to agree with Scott Ritter more on this; Ukraine pilots are used to flying Soviet aircraft. They are completely different compared to their western counterparts. For Ukraine to be successful in flying F-16’s, they would need fresh pilots whom have never flown any Soviet or Russian jets. Also, the F-16 is built for American needs, just as the Russian SU-27 and its family of aircraft are built for Russian needs. They are vastly different. I find it hard to take the opinion of a Ukraine pilot, who first started out in SU-27’s to have a valid opinion on the F-16.