{"id":165150,"date":"2025-01-08T19:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukranian-f-16s-claim-6-russian-cruise-missile-one-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:54:22","slug":"ukrainian-f-16-fighter-jet-pilots-claim-6-russian-cruise-missiles-on-one-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=165150","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian F-16 Fighter Jet Pilots Claim 6 Russian Cruise Missiles On One Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58722\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\"  >F-16<\/a><\/span> pilot claims to have broken a record and downed six Russian cruise missiles during a single mission (even though the aircraft was only carrying four air-to-air missiles). Two of these cruise missiles were neutralized with the aircraft&#8217;s cannon. While much has been written about how the F-16 compares to Russian             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span>, air-to-air fighter-on-fighter engagements are comparably rare. The Ukrainians appear to be using them mostly in an air defense role (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033951\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/su-34-reportedly-fighter-shot-down-by-f-16\/\" >rumors that Ukrainian F-16s have downed Russian fighter jets remain unconfirmed<\/a><\/span>and unsubstantiated). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine claims an F-16 was able to gun two Russian missiles after its missiles ran out during a December engagement.<\/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":[396,625,628,412,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165150","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=165150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165151,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165150\/revisions\/165151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}