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.
ease up on the propaganda, Russian troll
you lost 30,000 troops and billions of dollars trying to take Bahkmut, just to advance 20 miles in 6 months
meanwhile your O & G revenues were down 48% last month
Russia cannot win this, only the really stupid can’t figure that out
yes, that includes Putin
I think the most immediate Ukrainian need isn’t for Air to Air combat. It is to do look down-shoot-down intercepts of Russian cruise missiles, which the F-16 variants under consideration should be able to do quite well, with AMRAAMS. This would be to reinforce the Ukrainian air defense system that is running low on S300 missiles.
Or this would be Job #1 initially, anyway.
Russian aircraft don’t overfly Ukraine proper because of that Air Defense system. So I doubt Ukrainian fighters will be tasked with intercepting them.
The West cannot defeat Russia and the whole world can see it.
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Agreed, sanctions failed miserably, the trickle of western arms is making no impact on the outcome, the collective West is getting desperate.
As Vlad has almost all the ethnic Russian provinces, ( one of his stated objectives) the Ukies should start negotiating to preserve what little they left.
At one point Vlad will stop showing restraint.