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Where the frontline is close to the official border, Russia is able to keep its artillery and logistics on the Russian side of the border where Ukraine is not allowed to use half of its equipment. Russia's ongoing Kharkiv offensive is an example of this
France and Britain have been supplying the storm shadow missile, which has almost three times that range. Ukraine has been launching it from its own Su-24 aircraft, but those are very old and there aren't a lot of them left. The F-16 could be a good new platform to launch them from. As I understand it, storm shadow and F-16 are not compatible out of the box and would need some modification, but the same was true for the Su-24 and that appears to have worked out
Would Ukraine be able to fly planes close enough to strike within Russia given Russian strong anti air set up?
Can Ukraine use stormshadows within Russia?
Well they've been flying Su-24s, and the F-16s certainly shouldn't be any less capable than those for this sort of thing
The UK okayed it a couple of weeks ago, France this week
Ukrainian planes entered Russian air space?
Oh, that I'm not sure of. I misunderstood what you were asking, sorry about that
While I don't know about actual jets launching munitions over Russian airspace, Ukraine did successfully hit a Shahed drone factory over 1,000 km from the Russia-Ukraine border with what appears to have been one of these light aircraft converted to be unmanned. So Russia's air defence is definitely not impenetrable.
Got it. I am aware of Ukraine striking deep into Russia but it has always been with their own tools.
But back original all premises, I still doubt Ukraine would risk f16 getting that close to Russian air defense.
Western missile are perfect for the job. Now that UK and fr on board, US must also approve and deliver a large batch for the party.
Great opportunity to disrupt Russian ops near kharkiv IMHO and retaliate for NK missiles used there.