It became known how F-16 and Mirage aircraft performed during the massive air strike that Russia launched on Ukraine on the night of April 24, 2025.
This was announced during a national telethon by Yuriy Ignat, head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"F-16 pilots and Mirages pilots showed good results today - several dozen air targets were shot down by our Ukrainian pilots... There are cruise missiles shot down, there are "shaheeds" shot down, " he noted.
Ignat emphasized the effectiveness of the F-16 and Mirage.
"We want to once again note in the Air Force that the effectiveness of Western aircraft is quite high. Today, of course, both the Mirages and the F-16, and, finally, the old fleet, the Soviet aircraft, can only shoot down targets that fly along an aerodynamic trajectory. These are cruise missiles, drones," said the spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At the same time, he recalled that currently only the American Patriot system is capable of shooting down ballistic missiles.
"Unfortunately, aviation cannot work on ballistics. Therefore, our Patriot system works on ballistics. Everyone knows this," Ignat said.
As Apostrophe reported, on the morning of April 24, 2025, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported how many missiles and drones the Russian Federation launched at Ukraine at night and how many of them the Ukrainian air defense forces managed to shoot down.