{"id":1703,"date":"2026-02-21T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/ukrainian-air-force-f-16-captured-shooting-down-russian-target-with-apkws-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:48:24","slug":"ukrainian-air-force-f-16-captured-shooting-down-russian-target-with-apkws-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/ukrainian-air-force-f-16-captured-shooting-down-russian-target-with-apkws-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Air Force F-16 Captured Shooting Down Russian Target with APKWS II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ukr-f-16-apkws-cover-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ukrainian F-16 APKWS drone\" \/>Following the first sighting of the new capability in December 2025, a Ukrainian F-16 was captured using APKWS II laser-guided rockets to engage a drone. A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 was captured for the first time while using its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II guided rockets against a Russian unmanned system, believed to [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the first sighting of the new capability in December 2025, a Ukrainian F-16 was captured using APKWS II laser-guided rockets to engage a drone. A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 was captured for the first time while using its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II guided rockets against a Russian unmanned system, believed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}