{"id":44954,"date":"2026-02-08T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/epic-footage-air-force-shows-how-an-f-16-pilot-destroys-an-enemy-shahed-drone\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:21:09","slug":"epic-footage-air-force-shows-how-an-f-16-pilot-destroys-an-enemy-shahed-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/epic-footage-air-force-shows-how-an-f-16-pilot-destroys-an-enemy-shahed-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic footage: Air Force shows how an F-16 pilot destroys an enemy Shahed drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force showed footage of a Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot destroying an enemy Shahed drone. The pilot used an aircraft cannon to eliminate the target.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F02%2F08%2F1770581622-4190-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Epic footage: Air Force shows how an F-16 pilot destroys an enemy Shahed drone\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force showed epic footage of a pilot destroying an enemy Shahed drone with an F-16 fighter jet, UNN reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No, these are NOT AI-generated images, this is a real Ukrainian pilot in an F-16 fighter jet epically destroying an enemy Shahed over Ukraine! How many such destructions have there been already\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the message says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Air Force added that the pilot used an aircraft cannon to eliminate the target.<\/p>\n<p>The video is from social media, the author is unknown, the pilot is ours! &#8211; noted the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Kyiv lacked missiles for Patriot, launchers stood empty during Russian strikes on energy infrastructure &#8211; FT08.02.26, 20:26 \u2022 2578 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force showed footage of a Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot destroying an enemy Shahed drone. The pilot used an aircraft cannon to eliminate the target. The Air Force showed epic footage of a pilot destroying an enemy Shahed drone with an F-16 fighter jet, UNN reports. No, these are NOT AI-generated images, this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}