🇷🇺 The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian forces would shoot down U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets sent to #Ukraine, and that the F-16s would have no significant impact on the course of the war.
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I expect S-300 to only be effective against Soviet-era planes that Ukraine has now, but not against ones from NATO arsenal — not even dated machines such as F-16s, and ground targets of course — such as civilian structures, newly found use for this AA defense system 🤦
At least in Syria S-300 couldn't harm Israeli-operated F-16. Ukraine's pilots have no experience with them yet, but we'll see.
@m0xee @rvps2001 FWIW, YMMV, AYBABTU, NGGYUNGLYD
S-300 is an ADA, and any ADA is a risk.
However, the S-300 (and S-400 for that matter, likely the S-500, as well) carry a legacy issue, a specific flaw (won't disclose, NDAs are a thing). Because they preserved the core of S-200 radar processing code, all ADA core radar processing have this flaw.
The F-16 is a 40+yr design, but in a contest between F-16 flying past S-300 and likelihood of S-300 downing a F-16 my money is in the F-16.