Defense One: F-16s Would Make No ‘Fundamental Change’ in Ukraine’s War Effort, USAF Secretary Says
Biden’s decision to start training Ukrainian pilots on the jet is more about setting up Kyiv’s long-term capabilities, Kendall said.
Sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine would make no “fundamental change” to the war, the U.S. Air Force secretary said. “It will give Ukrainians an increment of capability that they don't have right now, but it's not going to be a dramatic game-changer, as far as I'm concerned, for their total military capabilities,” Frank Kendall told reporters Monday during a Defense Writers Group event.
President Biden announced on Friday that the U.S. will help train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s and other modern jets, a move that could enable Kyiv to use the jets if any are donated.
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Update: F-16s key step for Ukraine, but won’t be ‘game-changer,’ SECAF says (Defense News)
Update #2: US Air Force chief comments on impact of F-16s in Ukraine (RT)
WNU Editor: Wow! The US Air Force Secretary is really downplaying expectations.
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Active servicemen don’t want to burn their own equipment. They’ll follow orders but they don’t have to smile and sugarcoat it. Blobbers will get pissed that you posted this as if you got up to the podium and said it yoursef.
All the Putin fanboys including WNU look at the attrition of Ukrainian combat planes and cry put "Victory is getting nearer with glee.
The longer the Ukrainian Air Force is kept in the sky while the USSR 's air force is also being whittled down the better.
A few more shoot downs of Soviet planes using glide bombs and they Soviets will be trying to glide bomb form as far back as Moscow.
that nifty Soviet jammer was captured in Belogorod.
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"Near the Ukrainian city of New York, Donetsk Oblast, a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter was interdicted by an Ingla MANPADS. It is second RU aircraft to be downed in the last 48 hrs."
Might not be anything Russian for the F-16s to shoot down.
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