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Belgium to supply Ukraine with F-16s starting from 2025 (www.pravda.com.ua)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ideal and actual are drifting a little closer together after Sweden dangling their recent offer.

Ukraine can only work with so many F-16s, if we somehow gave them 50,000, you would not see large wings of them flying Ukrainian skies, because the planes and pilots just aren't enough. There's a whole infrastructure around them that is completely necessary and that takes years to build up.

So, don't get me wrong. F-16s are great and I'm glad they're going, but they are not a viable solution to Ukrainian problems. They'll help some. The Grippen could be an actual solution, even in fairly small numbers due to its highly unique capabilities.