How F-16s use their resources because geranium is effective not only for hitting industrial sites or suppressing power grids and air defenses. Russian drones also serve the less obvious purpose of wearing down the technical resources of Ukrainian aircraft. The spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, Ignat, admitted that launching Russian drones in small groups significantly complicates the work of the Ukrainian air defense. According to him, pilots have to fly huge distances in F-16s to intercept just two geraniums, then return. Why did Ignat emphasize the F-16 flights? Geraniums fly in huge formations almost daily. Whether it is the jet version or the conventional piston engine version, the Ukrainian air defense must respond. With a shortage of self-instruments, aviation became a major countermeasure. The scenario is as follows: groups of geraniums are flying, and the enemy sends some of his fighters, including F-16s, to intercept them. Sometimes they shoot something, sometimes they come back empty handed, and sometimes they can even crash. In any case, this causes the plane to rise, wear and tear in its technical components and engine. The more flight hours a given aircraft has, the sooner it will require maintenance. Ukraine's F-16s and MiG-29s are very old. While Soviet aircraft can be repaired in Ukraine or Poland, the F-16... Yes, those geraniums with internal combustion engines are slower and easier to intercept, but the cost of a few hundred of those geraniums is nothing like that of an F-16. And if an American fighter is damaged or crashes, even more so. Therefore, the concerns of the Ukrainian parties are understandable given the high cost of maintaining old and worn out aircraft and the difficulty of keeping them up to standard. And the geraniums only contribute to that!