Zelensky Says Ukraine Used Its F-16s To Shoot Down Russian Missiles During Attack

Summary Ukrainian F-16s successfully intercepted Russian missiles in recent attack. US optimized F-16s for electronic warfare to defend against Russian threats. Around 91 retired F-16s will slowly arrive in Ukraine from various countries to bolster defense.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that Ukraine's F-16s were used to defend the skies from the latest massive Russian missile barrage. Ukraine recently received the first ten or so of its much anticipated F-16 fighter jets from the Netherlands and Denmark. As expected, these jets have kept a low profile as Ukraine incorporates them into its armed forces and works them up.

This comes as little surprise as the delivered F-16s were seen fitted with air defense missiles and systems . Ukraine uses F-16s to defend Ukrainian air space Ukraine war blogger WarTranslated posted on X (formerly Twitter), " Zelensky says F-16s ('s) were used to shoot down Russian missiles during the last major attack. " Russia launched a massive attack.

According to another open-source account, Intelschizo , the missile attack was the largest stand-off weapon attack of the 21st Century. Russia launched 327 missiles and drones. Many of them were intercepted.

The Ukrainian MOD claims to have intercepted 1/6 Kinzhal Aero-Ballistic Missiles, 1/3 Kh-22 Missiles, 1/8 Iskander-M/K, KN-23 Ballistic Missiles 104/120 X-101, Kalibr, Kh-59/69 Missiles 159/190 Shahed UAVs. Ukraine claims to have intercepted 266 out of 327 missiles and drones fired.