The biggest thing F-16 will provide to Ukraine is the fact it has been integrated with so many different weapons already. Almost any western nation can just ship their weird domestic flavor missile and there is a damn good chance it will just work with the F-16.
Why? Because F-16 was so highly produced and so cheap that almost every western country owns F-16 and has integrated their weapons with it already.
I agree with you. The F-16’s primary value to Ukraine will be as a fully NATO integrated missile truck.
A dogfight or three will inevitably occur but they’ll be a “Wrong Place / Wrong Time” happenstance rather than designated Air Combat scenarios.
Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium will be sending their F16s to Ukraine. I guess that means they’ll need to replenish their fleet by buying new American jets.
They’re sending them because they already have new F-35s.
game-changing
What game are we playing now?
Another “game-changer”?
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The same Russia that lost five planes last week to a country without an Air Force, or the Russia that lost 20% of it’s black sea fleet to a country without a navy?
also the one that lost 87% of it’s troops to a “3 day millitary operation”?
