Russia is DESTROYING NATO's F-16s | Ukraine is Doomed 

Update: If we trust western media and Ukraine spokesperson: Ukraine confirms US-made F-16 fighter jet shot down by Russia Ukraine on Thursday confirmed that one of its F-16 fighter jets crashed while repelling a Russian air strike, killing the pilot. The Western-supplied fighter jet went down on Monday, when Russia launched a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine.

There is no such thing as Governments 'donating" F-16"S.....or whatever. It is SUCKER TAX PAYERS that do.

A Su 57 armed with a air to air R-37M missile 270 klm away shot down the F-16.

50 year old airplane. At the end of their useful life and given to Ukraine by some European Countries as pretend help probably after being promised something by the USA..

The proxy war in Ukraine is the first time NATO has tried to pick on someone their own size and NATO is getting humiliated.

Looks like F-16s are the new _"flying coffins."_ And if the F-16's advanced capabilities turn out to be an idle boast, imagine how overhyped the F-35 is.

All of Putin's family speaks Mandarin. I was blown away when Putin said this.

sean penn said one squadron of F-16s will beat Russia. The actor has watched too many Hollywood movies.

Russia is fighting NATO not Ukraine

No wonder Ukraine hasn’t done anything with them.

Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity. In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas. If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy. Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements. Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time Russia's national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns. 20th September, 2021. Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter). We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster? Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest. Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens-theirs will hide in the basements”. Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it. Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country. Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list. There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence). The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present. Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave. Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P. The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims). The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter. I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion. I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written. Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.

But the media are saying all over that Ukraine is winning and winning

Bravo, that was a reason not to purchase NATO weapons because soon as you become NATO member, you must purchase that crap.

Senator Lindsay Graham looking for retired F16 pilots. Don't think he'll find any 😮😢

If Ukraine downed the F 16, then it is also possible for them to have shot down the Malaysian airlines plane.

A comedian giving us stand up comedy in real life is beyond me.....

For god sake! He is not president!!!

Well as Scott Ritter has mentioned they are cracker Jack boxes they're worn out and can't even handle the g-forces. Sounds like a game-changer to me😅

Putin said bring those old F-16 and they will burn 🔥

F- 16 hit by R- 37.

Considering the fact that the F16 is now at a point where it takes 2-3 days of service to maintain it every time it flies? I doubt they will have much influence at all.

F-16 is a 40 year old at the end of their technical life cycle.

The F16 are meant to intercept Russian subsonic cruise missiles and drones in a role to bolster Ukrainian air defence. There is hardly any chance of the F16s encountering Russian jets in dogfights which are today done beyond visual range.

How many game changers have Ukraine received

Turkey said it was SU34 with the R37 missile with a record kill of over 250km.the R37 has a range of 400km.

Bidens poster boy Anthony Blinken was born in Yonkers, NY, to Jewish parents, and has a Ukrainian ally named Volodymyr Zelenskyy who was also born to Jewish parents in Kryvyi Rih. The Kier Starmer family belongs to London's Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood

Zelensky came into political office on a platform of peace....today he is a dictator presiding over a "G" nice one good work

Russia is amazing. They don’t even boast about their developments, whereasUSA is looking for trouble all over the world.

And the winner of the Sky is : Russia❤ And the loser of the Sky is : Ukraine and USA😂

F16 is a pile of Rubbish. Ukraine does not have the pilots to fly them.

Game changing, like German Me262 jet fighters in 1945.

Actually two have been down already.. They dismiss ukr air force general.. 😂😂😂😊

Ukraine already lost this war..

F 16 is only tough against date farmers and camel breeders while against Vodka craftsmen it loses

'The only mission that the f16 can perform is recognition...' I will correct Scott here The only mission the f16 has been sent to perform in ukraine is draining more taxpayers money. Period. Mission accomplished btw

Those pilots who are assigned to fly these F-16s must have lost in poker games.

Reminds me of our good friend Germans and their V1 and V2 weapons in the 1943 and 1944, celebrated at that time as the 'war winners', turning the tide of war and such.

Every person with common sense knows that SU-35 is on par with F-35 let alone F-16. I mean really? Nice video, well done.

Turkish intelligence and some source mentions, F-16 was shot down by SU-57.

Thanks Alex for sharing another great discussion with Scott Ritter.

RITTER MOST RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION

Ukraine is a hand-me-down country of military hardwares. Talking about respect😂

Wrong, Turkish intelligence nailed it. An SU 57 was stalking the battlefield undetected and fired a R37 missile (also undetected) at the F16. It never knew what hit it. The Patriot uses the "friend/Foe" system and wouldn't have fired at the F16. If it did, the F16 would've used countermeasures and flew a defensive pattern. It did none of this. NATO can't admit that an SU 57 and its missile were completely invisible to NATO air defenses.

F16s are toys compare to Russian's F35

Bidens 's war !!

F-16 is the equivalent of a 1970 Honda 750 four motorcycle with 250,000 miles on it.

It has been determined that the patriot did not shoot down the F-16 due to the friend or foe recognition system... Russia did deployed their Su-57M nearby to monitor threats while th massive offensive barrage of missiles and drones conducted on August 26th noticed the F-16 and fired its air-to-air missile that brought it down.

Imagine being a Russian pilot, here you are with hundreds or even thousands of hours of combat flying and NATO is giving you an F16 to test your newfound skills. Well done NATO.

That's because American pilots are not flying those jets. It takes years to train on those jets. Big mistake giving those jets to Ukraine.

The F16 was designed 50 years ago .....the planes given to Ukraine are 40 year's old !

🎉 RM&T is the GOAT of media news 🎉

F16 legendarily difficult to fly. It has always required the absolutely best pilots to fly them. And they still get crashed.

Donating F16's means the US selling more F35'5 ..

Russia did not down THAT F16, besides HOW MANY SU35s has Russia dared to launch??? And how many do they have???

Ukraine is collapsing

Both sides TESTING new Equipment, and Ukrainians are dying.

Thanks Scott once again God bless you

An SU-35 looking like an F-35

F16 are the oldest fighters in any army. Close to be decommissioned if not already. That is why they were given... They break down even without fighting, just by flying...

I just want both areas to stop the war. That’s what I want from our next president.

Sad that humans look at war like wrestling

Esentially,the US is assisting Ukrae yo commit sueside. Wow!!

F16 is a very old jet😂

It was haunted by a poltergeist. The poltergeist of Kyiv.

God bless those world leaders whose reason and compassion compels them to resist escalation. Why are so few of them in America?

The difference is russia could make 10's off planes for the price of 1 USA plane - because in usa arns manufacturers are funnelled money in insane ammounts by the gov that they have bought and owned

PUTIN Finnish UKRAINE

Zelensky is the nato general … irrespective of what happens to the people of Ukraine … he will fight till last ukrainian man and they flee to USA… if he really cares about Ukrainian people. .. he will call for diplomacy and not ask for more weapons for a war where they can never win

Scott Ritter is awesome. Clear-cut view.no flip flop.

F16 is so old it can't be a game changer that's ridiculous to think it will make any difference

Zelensky is no more president

When Germany re unified. It inherited the MIG-29's from the former DDR. The Luftwaffe provided adversarial sparring services with them. It was found that the better pilot wins, not the better plane

Glass half empty: an F-16 was shot down Glass half full: the Patriot air-defense system finally shot down an aircraft.

Lol, media is providing a F35 illustration as an actual Su35 plane. " Thrust Vectoring Engines " notice how there is only one engine.

FJB FKH.

this has some truth to it but it's also speculative. Yes, the airframes are roughly exhausted ... but they aren't just going to disintegrate. And the pilots know to keep the stress to a minimum unless it is a matter of life and death. At which point, it's a worthwhile risk. More importantly, yeah, the Irbis with the 400 km range sounds good ... but that is of a larger target also. Something smaller like an F-16 will be much shorter. Anyway, the Su-35 and MiG-35 are both capable aircraft with slightly longer range radar ... especially bc Russia flies their A-50 near enough to help with targeting. The real factor isn't where they can detect, but where they can engage a maneuvering aircraft with enough energy to likely hit it. Very complicated stuff.

Real estate has done better than gold.

F-16 vs SU 57M. No, wait…already two downed F-16s…never saw what hit them.

😂😂😂 this war with Ukraine is comedy gold

Without Tom Cruise these F-16s are nothing, but in a purely commercial analysis, sending those old rusty cans to Ukraine is the deal of the decade! Much better than that bullthing about gold!

Friendly fire?? It's been around a long time I'm sure, but I think the Yanks have now perfected it. I reckon it was taken out by a SU fighter with long range missiles. Just a thought.

The Patriot system has a big problem to shot down the very agile S35, so the Patriot crew was looking for an easier target and found one....

Russia had gived the warning earlier this year that they would shoot down the plane. They even told it to you before they did it.

A fool with F16 is still a fooooooooool

THEY DONT KNOW WHATS GOING TO HIT THEM ...

The U.S. Air Force's nickname for the F-16 is "Nevada lawn dart" . It has very high accident rate due to the "Biological barrier" Pilots black out in high g mana Ubers and crash

Thousands of drones can take any aircraft down.

Ukraine just lost 16% of F-16's, and Russia didnt have to shoot 1 projectile? Yup, clown forces at work

Russia: This game was rigged from the start, kid

F-16 were released in the early 1980's, meaning developed in the 1970's.

EVERYONE SEES WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE BUT FEW UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS. Machiavelli

The f- 16 were great planes when new , now they are nothing but hangar queens .

Ukraine cant fly the f16. Nato personel

Argentina signed an agreement to buy 24 surplus F-16 fighter jets from Denmark. It did not get them for free as Ukraine.

It was a Dutch delivered F16. Supposedly it was also a Dutch donaated patriot that took it down

The F-16's are fifty or sixty years old. The whole discussion is ridiculous.

Thanks Alex!❤

An F-16 versus an SU-35 is like a Pinto versus a Ferrari. The F-16 is way too old to even compete. Try a F-22 or a F-35 versus an SU-35 and let's see which one is truly outmatched. SU-35 will never see them coming.

The Russians have proven for the past 2.5 years that their military is so far superior to the United States military that a piece such as this piece comparing the two aircraft's proves that not only is Russia superior in fighter jet design and technology but their missile, hypersonic missile ( the USA does even have its first hypersonic missile yet) drone technology, armaments, manufacturing capabilities, lower costs, larger navy, better air defense and radar jamming technology etc over and above the United States and it hurts me to point this out

Abhinandan shot down one of pak Airforce with his Mig 21 but same explanation was given to save face that it was shot down accidentally by fellow plane.