A company based in the Urals, called Fores, has made a bold offer: they will give 15 million rubles (around $149,000) to the first Russian soldier who successfully shoots down a US-made F-16 fighter jet. This offer comes after reports that the Russian military may have already downed one such aircraft earlier this week.

Vladimir Rogov, a Russian official and co-chair of the Coordinating Council for the Integration of New Regions, claimed that the Russian military shot down an F-16 jet su...