Ukrainian Pilots’ F-16 ‘Training Pipeline Pretty Meager’ – Report

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‘Coaching’ for Ukrainian F-16 Pilots ‘Fairly Meager’, Media Stories

‘Coaching’ for Ukrainian F-16 Pilots ‘Fairly Meager’, Media Stories

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Russia has repeatedly underscored that the supply of the F-16 jets to the Zelensky regime wouldn’t change the state of affairs on the entrance line.

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Issues associated to the supply of the US-made F-16 fighter jets to the Kiev regime stay – “from the variety of pilots who will be capable of fly them to crews able to hold them working,” an unnamed senior protection American official informed the Protection Information.”Between Europe and the US, there are solely a dozen or so Ukrainian pilots studying to fly the planes proper now. That’s only a handful of pilots, and that’s simply the pilots,” the supply stated.Different members of an F-16 crew, resembling upkeep specialists, who hold the fighter in working order, are additionally vital, the official famous.As many as 60 F-16s are anticipated to be delivered to Ukraine from Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium earlier than the top of this yr. The White Home earlier confirmed that Kiev would obtain the F-16s from third international locations as soon as the Ukrainian pilots have accomplished the required coaching to fly them. The UK-based newspaper, The Commonplace, cited a high-ranking navy supply as saying final month that the primary batch of the F-16s “would arrive in Ukraine inside weeks.”Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the supply of F-16 warplanes to the Kiev regime would result in an additional escalation of the Ukraine battle as a result of the plane has a modification that makes them nuclear-capable, which poses a direct menace to Russia.President Vladimir Putin of Russia emphasised that even when Western international locations provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, they won’t have the ability to change the state of affairs on the battlefield. He warned that if these fighter jets are deployed from third-country territories, they are going to be thought of reliable targets for Russian forces. The president additional said that the F-16s, identical to different Western gear delivered to Kiev, could be destroyed.

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Russia has repeatedly underscored that the supply of the F-16 jets to the Zelensky regime wouldn’t change the state of affairs on the entrance strains and that these warplanes will probably be destroyed identical to different forms of weapons provided by NATO international locations to Ukraine.