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Ghost of Kyiv dies in battle ‘after shooting down 40 Russian aircraft’
- mzs 5y agointerview with the parents: https://text.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088446883/remembering-ukrainian-fighter-pilot-war-russia https://text.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088446883/remembering-ukrai...
- supergirl 5y agoI doubt there is a lot of dogfighting in this war. Maybe if "40 aircraft" includes "30 drones".
- melling 5y agoIt probably takes a year to train a pilot. Not being able to control the airspace seems like an unsolvable problem for Ukraine.
- lgvln 5y agoWasn’t the “Ghost of Kyiv” debunked as a myth, or at least the videos and images were(taken from a variety video games)?
- simonblack 5y agoJust a myth. What's his name? Which squadron is he with? Where is that squadron based? How were the 40 kills verified? Which kills were they? Where were those kills? When were those kills? If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoI'd like for it to be real. But the F-35 is developed because of the very low rate of dog-fights based on analysis of mission/flight data. The amount of encounters were so low, it's not worth the additional speed in a jet.