{"id":105578,"date":"2024-08-10T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukraine-f-16-advanced-counter-measures-pods-enhanced-defense\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:58:13","slug":"ukraines-f-16s-have-advanced-counter-measures-pods-for-enhanced-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=105578","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s F-16s Have Advanced Counter-Measures Pods For Enhanced Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    With <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16-fighter-jets-arrive-ukraine\/\">the first of the much-anticipated F-16s finally in Ukraine<\/a>, it is now coming to light what they are to be armed with. It appears that Ukraine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\">F-16s<\/a> have been delivered with advanced countermeasure pods for self-protection and missiles for air defense. Countermeasures will be important for the jets as they will now be some of Russia&#8217;s highest-priority targets in Ukraine (although one of the greatest threats will come from being hit on the ground).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s F-16s appear configured for air defense and have a number of self-defense systems installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,625,628,408,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105579,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105578\/revisions\/105579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}