'Better Late Than Never': Ukraine Faces a Steep Learning Curve on F-16s
Kyiv’s top brass hopes to get Western fighter jets before their kids go off to college.
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Kyiv’s top brass hopes to get Western fighter jets before their kids go off to college.
Kiev is hoping to receive several dozen F-16 fighter jets from their NATO ‘partners’ following Washington’s approval of the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly the planes. Moscow has vowed to account for the deployment of F-16s into its military strategy, and warned that such an “escalation scenario” carries “enormous risks” for the West.
A spokesperson for the Ukrainian military made another push for Kyiv's partners to send F-16 fighter aircraft to help it repel Russian strikes.
Ukraine has enjoyed air superiority for more than 400 days. Time may be running out.
US-made F-16s in Ukraine would be completely outmatched by Russia's S-400 Air Defense," a US Air Force veteran was cited as saying in a media report.