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F16 Coalition To Supply Planes To Ukraine

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ichkeria | 19:34 Tue 16th May 2023 | News
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Announced unofficially in closed session by Mark Rutter - Dutch premier and to be confirmed by Norway publicly shortly.
Training in Wales

The fighter jets are coming!
The link is still in Lilliput :-)
But it’s also coming …
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Good. Very near us they train Swiss pilots in low-level flying (not a lot of flat land in Switzerland) so I expect we'll get the Ukrainians as well after a while. Happy to put up with the noise. :)
The link is still in Lilliput?
Hope your not expecting gulliver to provide it
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I only found so far in Le Monde (Fr)
and BBC Russian.
Thus still depends on US consent, but I would suggest that that will follow shortly. I’d also say that training had already been ongoing and that those jets will not be long coming.
We’ll see
Costing well over a hundred million quid of taxpayers hard-earned moolah a time, they must only be given with the assurance that they are put in the hands of fully-trained pilots.

I want them to have them, but fighting with 'free' weapons is a desirable luxury for any country.
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Well training is a part of it: they aren’t just handing over planes.
And they’ll all be castoffs: F-16s aren’t exactly state of the art.
Given the performance of Ukrainian pilots with what they already have I don’t think their ability to learn fast will be in doubt
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And it’s taken a disgracefully long time to happen I would add
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“ This still depends on US consent”

Actually I take that back.
I don’t think it does
Ichi, no takers for my post in 'Politics' not the best place to have put it.
If you haven't read the article I think you will find it interesting & informative,
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/05/16/a-very-grim-portrait

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