{"id":34410,"date":"2024-05-05T02:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16s-arrive-in-ukraine-combat-record\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T02:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:01:12","slug":"f-16s-are-about-to-arrive-in-ukraine-what-is-their-combat-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=34410","title":{"rendered":"F-16s Are About To Arrive In Ukraine. What Is Their Combat Record?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Anticipation is building as <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukrainian-pilots-complete-f-16-raf-training\/\">F-16s will enter Ukraine for the first time in the coming weeks<\/a>. After being in service for more than 50 years and undergoing many upgrades, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-f16-fighter-jet-popularity-guide\/\">F-16 remains one of the world&#8217;s most popular and successful fighter jets<\/a>. Much has been said about these American-built jets, with claims that no <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\">F-16s<\/a> have been lost in an air-to-air battle and that they are game changers. But how true is this? What is the combat history of the F-16 Fighting Falcon?    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the F-16 has a stellar combat record, they are getting old and will be up against the latest Russian fighter jets and air defense.<\/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":[396,120,625,4462,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-f-16","category-shot-down","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34410","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=34410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34411,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34410\/revisions\/34411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}