Portuguese Air Force F-16 M Fighting Falcons fly over Praça do Comercio during the military parade that opens the official ceremonies in celebration of the 50th anniversary of 1974 Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos).Horacio Villalobos/Getty ImagesF-16 fighter jets are about to finally enter combat in Ukraine, where its new operators will have to figure out how best to use them.There is a play in which Ukraine could pursue bursts of air superiority to score breakthroughs, experts say.The integrated air-ground campaign could give Ukraine what it needs to break through Russian defenses.Ukraine will soon receive F-16s, combat-proven Western fighter jets able to augment the war-torn country's depleted force of aging Soviet-era aircraft.A key question is how Ukraine should "optimize the use of the relatively small number of F-16s" it is set to receive and the limited availability of trained pilots, airpower experts say.Ukraine, they write, could leverage its new fighter jets as part of an integrated air-ground campaign to secure brief, localized air superiority as part of a larger operation to secure breakthroughs in specific areas.Ret.