A Ukrainian F-16 crashed while fighting off a Russian attack after an ’emergency situation’ on board. The pilot survived.

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A Ukrainian F-16 crashed while fighting off a Russian attack after an ’emergency situation’ on board. The pilot survived.

Ukraine’s air force said one of its F-16s crashed while fighting off a Russian attack.

It said the jet took out three targets but had an issue on board while trying to stop a fourth.

Ukraine has now lost at least three F-16s.

Ukraine said that one of

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crashed while repelling a Russian air attack, but its pilot survived.

In an announcement on Friday, Ukraine’s air force said that preliminary data showed the pilot destroyed three aerial targets and was targeting a fourth when an issue occurred with the US-made jet.

“An emergency situation occurred on board,” it said, according to a translation by Ukrainian publication Militarnyi.

The air force did not elaborate on what the situation was or whether the Russian

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, or aircraft.

But it said that the pilot safely ejected after moving away from a populated area, and was quickly found and evacuated by a rescue team.

It described the pilot as safe and stable.

The air force said the incident occurred at around 3:30 a.m. local time on Friday and that a special commission was investigating what happened.

Ukraine has lost at least two F-16s before this incident, including

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Ukraine’s F-16s, a fighter jet originally produced by General Dynamics and now manufactured by

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, have been used to defend cities and stop Russian attacks.

But while that role has been important, many air warfare experts describe it as one that Ukraine has been pushed toward because it doesn’t have enough of the jets to use in other roles.

Ukraine’s F-16 fighter jets have been used to defend cities and stop Russian attacks.AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Ukraine started requesting F-16s soon after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, but the first ones didn’t

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Some allied countries wanted to send them sooner, but

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The Biden administration was worried their arrival would lead to a Russian escalation and that it would take too long to train Ukrainian pilots to use them and integrate them into its military. However, the US eventually allowed other countries to send the jets.

Ukraine has been pledged around 85 F-16s from the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and Denmark, though not all of them have arrived.

None of Ukraine’s F-16s have come from the US,

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Air warfare experts said that not enough F-16s were given to Ukraine for it to be able to use them offensively

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi in front of the first F-16 fighter jets received by Ukraine.Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

Ukraine’s F-16s are

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that were previously used by other air forces, and are

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Despite this, Ukraine is seen to be performing well with the jets.

Ret. Col. John Venable, a 25-year veteran of the US Air Force and a former F-16 pilot, told *** in January that

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and its pilots have demonstrated impressive skills.

Troels Lund Poulsen, Denmark’s defense minister, told *** in February that Ukraine has dispelled any doubts that it could not handle the jets.

“The Ukrainian pilots and the Ukrainian armed forces and air force have also shown that they’re able to deal with this new capacity,” he said.

Among other achievements, it’s claimed that a Ukrainian

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, a feat no pilot had achieved before with the jet.

The pilot’s survival from this latest ****** is likely good news for Ukraine. Pilots are often seen as just as important, if not more so, than the jets themselves, as they take a long time to train and are hard to replace.

Many air warfare experts say some F-16 losses are to be expected, and that it’s not inherently a bad sign that Ukraine has lost some of the jets.

Michael Bohnert, an air-warfare expert at RAND Corporation, previously told *** that

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, and that “if any of the F-16s make it to the end of the war, they probably weren’t used hard enough.”

The remaining F-16s pledged by Ukraine’s allies are still due to arrive, and Poulsen, Denmark’s defense minister, told *** he hoped more countries would commit to sending additional jets: “More F-16s are needed in Ukraine.”

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