Ekaterina Girnyk10:26, 08.03.25 The Donald Trump administration has cut off vital support for F-16 jamming capabilities. The United States, having decided to end its support for Ukraine, cannot sim…
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    18 hours ago

    I wonder if Ukraine’s European allies (France, the UK, and such) could provide non-US replacements for the EW pods, and whether hacking those into a F-16 would be harder than getting a Soviet-era MiG to fire NATO missiles (which Ukraine successfully did before it got the F-16s). If that would be doable, it’d be cheaper than replacing the F-16s

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      111·
      18 hours ago

      i’m sure they’re already working at it. Ukrainian hardware hackers are also something else, and are currently highly motivated. i don’t think the f-16s are going to be back fully operational immediately, but i think people will be surprised how soon they’re scrambled again

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      17 hours ago

      They certainly can in terms of “they’ve built these systems for their own aircraft”. Germany is in the process of upgrading some of its Typhoons to replace its old fleet of dedicated electronic warfare Tornados, and France has got EW stuff on the Rafale. I’ve got no idea what sort of scale the systems are available on or how easily they could be adapted to Ukraine’s menagerie of equipment though