{"id":65651,"date":"2024-06-15T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukraine-destroying-russian-air-defense-make-way-for-f-16s\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:00:14","slug":"is-ukraine-destroying-russian-air-defense-to-make-way-for-f-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=65651","title":{"rendered":"Is Ukraine Destroying Russian Air Defense To Make Way For F-16s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            With the United States finally delivering ACTAMS missiles to Ukraine, Ukraine appears to be destroying a large number of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/russia\/\">Russian<\/a> S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems (SAMs). One suggestion is that Ukraine is working to weaken Russian air defense before the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\">F-16<\/a> fighter jets arrive. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/nordic-backing-ukraine-f-16s-denmark-norway\/\">first Ukrainian F-16s are expected to arrive sometime this summer<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open-source intelligence has noted a significant uptick in the number of Russian S-300 and S-400 SAMs being destroyed in Ukraine.<\/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":[396,120,7335,309,3434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-missile","category-russia","category-russian-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65651","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=65651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65652,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65651\/revisions\/65652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}