The #ing Rats have far exceeded their war mongering accusations against Trump.
What “both sides”?
Over 4,600 F-16s have been built. They have support all over NATO. Plus, the F-35 program is going strong. Give Ukraine F-16s, replace the donated planes with newer F-16s or in time more F-35s.
Basing in a NATO country to attack Russian forces is out. Basing inside Ukraine will be a problem. The remaining UAF is operating from highways and moving around.
The F-16 on average needs twice the runway of a Mig-29, meaning there are fewer potential places it can operate. Ukraine does not want to give Russia easy targets.
The vast infrastructure that is necessary to keep jets in the air is not something one can replicate overnight. Since the idea of building an airbase in or near the Ukraine that could keep F-16s in the air is ridiculous, will the F-16s fly off of a US aircraft carrier in the Black Sea? Will the Ukrainian pilots just fly the jets until they break, then eject, saying ‘oh well’ thanks for the memories. C’mon Man!
Tucson? That means Davis-Monthan AFB. I don’t think the US Air Force has any F16s at Davis-Monthan, the home base of the A10 Warthogs and a huge aircraft graveyard. I think Luke AFB near Phoenix is where the F16 training center is.
But I guess I am just quibbling.
The sooner the inexperienced Ukrainian F-16 pilots take to the air against Russia, the sooner they will be blown out of the sky.
A “familiarization” flight training in simulators is not intense fighter combat training.
This is all propaganda.
There is a very good reason nobody is handing over F-16 fighters to Ukraine for combat. The world would see how fast Russia would shoot them down and how impotent the U.S. and NATO have become.
NATO has become a dinosaur in its death throes. The continuing expansion of NATO after the break-up of the Soviet Union has been unnecessary except to make American crooked politicians more wealthy via kickbacks. It has been a way to milk the U.S. taxpayers for money to vastly enrich American weapons manufacturers who have shared the wealth with political crooks.
This is absolute desperation by globalist warmongers in the face of a complete debacle in Ukraine which every day shows how fake is the effort to try to project Western “strength.”
The West cannot defeat Russia and the whole world can see it. Who do these lunatics think they are fooling? Begging the world for donations of artillery ammunition is not inspiring much confidence in the military “power” of the West.
Everything you hear in the Media about this war is a LIE
“Ukraine is being LIBERATED by Russia, not attacked. The are removing the Khazarian mafia, the US biological weapons labs, and the Biden/Obama money laundering operations. My organizations speaks to dozens of people currently living in Ukraine and they are so happy that liberation has finally come. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE MEDIA....ALL STORIES ARE LIES. The enemy is in the gates, not in Russia. CLUE IN”
-Nick Sylvester
You know, if Biden keeps giving away all the military equipment (Afghanistan, Ukraine), people will be able to fight the government with just guns.
Two pilots is only a test to see how well they do.
I wouldn’t waste my time defending Russians or Putin.
So, is this a pilot program?
Article from August of 2022.
Romania Is a Model for Training Ukraine’s Pilots to Fly F-16s
Aug. 28, 2022
“Romania, a NATO member, offers a case study for how that could go. Its air force is completing a transition from Soviet-era MiG-21s to U.S.-built F-16s, providing a model for training pilots for the switch, according to U.S. Airmen involved with the training. The U.S. Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command even has a course for partner and ally nation pilots that could be tailored for Ukraine.
At Morris Air National Guard Base, Ariz., Eastern European pilots from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia have been taking the six-month ANG International Initial Qualification Course (Advanced) for more than two decades. In fact, today’s young Romanian pilots have never flown MiGs, which are being phased out of Romania’s Air Force as it seeks to expand its fleet of F-16s and eventually to buy F-35s.”
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/romania-is-a-model-for-training-ukraines-pilots-to-fly-f-16s/
Around 10 years ago, I was deployed OCONUS to a base we shared with a foreign unit we was directly supplied with a squadron of F-16s.
It was never more than 50% ready, even with 100% direct support from us. They never flew more than a few birds at a time.
Just have them watch Top Gun a few times and they should be ready.
Game Changer #?
Stay out.
Still NOT OUR FIGHT! Let Europe handle it as they did the Crimean War.
The company I was working for was making a radar simulator for the F-16. We were far enough along to put up a picture but not far enough along to make it move yet. The people from Lockheed(?) were in-plant for a progess check and our hardware guys were very proud of the picture that we put up for them to see.
But the Lockheed guy said, “Oh no, that’ll never do”. Our H/W guys were devasted until he added, “A real radar picture would never look anywhere close to that clear”. In the end, the H/W guys added circuitry to add noise into the picture so that it wouldn’t be so clear.
The pair are being taught using flight simulators.
Well they should have it mastered in about a week or two huh.