Ukrainian Air Force Spokesperson Yuriy Ignat said that the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets started in Denmark. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication Strana.ua.
According to the publication, while the pilots were initially trained on NATO-style light engine aircraft, they now started flying F-16 fighter jets accompanied by instructors.
“And accordingly, combat flights to learn how to fight on this plane,” Ignat explained.
Preparations for Ukrainian forces to use F-16 are not only made in Denmark. Other specialists, ground personnel, combat control officers and aeronautical engineering officers are trained in the UK.
Before that in Congress I suspected US ability to deliver F-16s to Taiwan on time. Bloomberg reported this, citing a letter from Republican lawmakers.
20 members of the Republican Party signed the objection petition. Taiwan’s military support program includes the delivery of 66 new F-16 fighter jets and the modernization of the state’s 141 existing air combat vehicles.
Previously in NATO in the name The condition for the transfer of F-16 to Ukraine.
Source: Gazeta
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