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✈️ 2 F-16s are likely to be used as decoys

If you look closely at the photos of the planes that were on the ground during the awarding of Air Force soldiers by Zelensky, you can see that they are F-16 ADF planes. This version can be distinguished by the characteristic IFF "own-foreign" antennas, namely the protruding part. In photo 3: the top picture is an F-16 ADF near Zelenskyi, the bottom picture is an F-16AM in which the pilot is sitting.

▫️F-16 fighters were modernized by the ADF at the end of the Cold War as air defense aircraft, but after the collapse of the USSR they were mothballed, and some were sold to Jordan and Thailand.

It is likely that these 2 planes were recently loaded into a Ukrainian An-124-100M in the USA. It is unlikely that the planes were restored after so many years of storage under the open sky, and judging by the fact that there are no inscriptions on them near the cockpit, and they were also covered with camouflage nets - we are likely talking about defunct planes that will be used as decoys for missiles.

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