Ukraine
This could be a game changer.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...s-f-16s-have-scored-their-first-aerial-kills/
Air force officials are preparing the jets for these dangerous clashes.
To protect the F-16s from Russian missiles, Ukraine has retained the fighters’ recently-installed Pylon Integrated Dispensing System and the Electronic Combat Integrated Pylon Systems: PIDS and ECIPS, respectively.
PIDS ejects metal chaff and hot-burning flares to spoof incoming radar- and infrared-guided missiles. ECIPS houses passive defenses to complement the active chaff and flares, including the AN/ALQ-162 jammer for defeating radars on the ground, as well as an AN/AAR-60 missile warning system for triggering the passive defenses.
The jammer requires specific programming in order to recognize and defeat the latest Russian radars. The U.S. Air Force assisted with this programming, deploying airmen from the Florida-based 68th Electronic Warfare Squadron to Europe to tweak the F-16s’ jammers.
Are these what the tweet is about?