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As slow as the Yak trainer and with the manoeuvrability of the Yak at that speed? I very much doubt it on both counts.

An F-16 can get down to 75 KIA, albeit at about 25° AOA, but they're pretty handy doing 145 in the circuit before final approach. I was stationed at Carswell AFB, immediately across the runway from General Dynamics, and the 301st reequipped with them in 1991, and so I saw hundreds of F-16s doing their acceptance flights and/or approaches/IFEs and so on -- which all include slow maneuvers ... not that a Shahed is pulling chandelles or Cuban 8s to dodge incoming.

A video to illustrate the point:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQhKyzwmQx8&t=1s

This was a gun kill.
 
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