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They dont need F-16s SEAD capability right now, what they need it is precision strike capability The F-16 can carry 2 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and even with baseline Harpoon ,they can launch them from over 100 miles away That puts the Black Sea Fleet out of commission The F-16 can be easily intergrated with Storm Shadow but US can do Ukraine a solid and give them JASSM-As JASSM-As would allow Ukraine to wipe out Russian bases in Crimea , Kerch bridge, Russian forward operating bases with aircraft and Black Sea Fleet HQ at Novorossiysk SEAD is important but with F-16 with PAVEWAYs taking the load of ground forces Ground forces can be sent GPS and communication jammers The Tunguska, Panstir S1, Tor ,Buk, S-300 and S-400 very good for countering aircraft but what happens HIMARS or Pzh-2000 drop steel on them They instantly become useless Why risk the F-16s on SEAD when you dont have to
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The simple fact is the F-16 can fully use the AGM-88 to max potential More the point, the F-16 allows Ukraine greater access more weapons
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The AGM-88G can already do that minus the visual mode What you are thinking about is rather expensive mod and iffy if they want to spend that $$ A hypothetical AGM-88H would need to be designed like the SM-2/RIM-5 and have EO/IR sensor built on the side Second, it would need Automatic Target Recognition Unit (ATRU) added In addition to current sensors which is a lot The missile already weights 800lbs
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@dougcoombes8497 No they are not They have too few aircraft to use Storm Shadows and the USV success against target has been limited Ukraine is estimated to have just 8 Su-24s and how many are wired to carry Storm Shadows ? Ukraine is getting 61 F-16 10 F-16s with 2 Harpoons each against the Black Sea Fleet unlike the USV will do major damage Instead a few Su-34s Ukraine can send up 10 plane strike packages and lob 20 missiles per target 20 missiles striking a Russian base vs maybe 1 or 2 missiles strike the same target Example Russian airfield you can put 3 missiles into taxi ways and 7 for cratering the runaways Thats gives 1 missile for the fuel dump , another for munition storage 10 for everything else So instead and here you are dropping hay maker blows
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@nietkees6906 Yet Ukraine has been destroying S-400 components in recent months
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@dougcoombes8497 Again wrong Hell Ukraine proved my point as they just smoked an S-400 site
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@dougcoombes8497 Thousands doesnt translate to thousands deployed Russia still has its own territory to protect
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@JSFGuy They dont need Block 70 What they need is F-16s that can use AGM-65, PAVEWAYs, JDAMs. AGM-88 and CBU which most F-16s can do Now the US can really do Ukraine a solid and either intergrate Storm Shadow or KEDP-350 or better, give Ukraine some JASSM While ATACMS is iffy, the USAF has thousands of JASSMs and giving Ukraine the older models allows them to buy newer
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@JSFGuy its not about range its about utility The AGM-65 is usable virtually any target Move the point,, IR and SAL which makes it immune to jamming
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@JSFGuy Its shorter range but far better utility than AGM-88
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@TheLavadiver They dont need a year Simple launch and leave tactics The F-16 can Harpoon's from over 100 miles away Without the Moskava, the remaining ships cant stop them from attacking Same with ground target launch and leave
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@dougcoombes8497 CAS become moot if F-16s use strike Russian bases and supply lines with long range cruise missiles No need to try go blow for blow
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@nietkees6906 Which is why Ukraine needs to use ground forces to neutralize them
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@dougcoombes8497 and how many can they actually use in Ukraine
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@dougcoombes8497 Once again how many can they can actually use in Ukraine the answer not that many SEAD is only needed when you are dealing with contested airspace You dont need SEAD if you can attack without getting range of the enemy defenses or other options to attack
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@dougcoombes8497 Once again Russian can't thousands or hundreds only a hand full at most and its shows
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