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Finnish and Swedish PMs at joint press conference today indicating plans to move ahead with NATO membership. Putin making a play for dumbest "special military operation" in past 100 years. 

https://news.yahoo.com/finland-sweden-mo...00147.html

Poland sending upgraded Soviet tanks to Ukraine, joining Czechs.

[Tweet]https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1514236244263378946?s=20&t=xq23Cv7iAIVNuUl8V2KPww[/tweet]

I suspect it's only a matter of time until the MIGs are going over as well. I've seen some discussion that perhaps the best MIGs to send are recent models from Egypt that are equipped with newer active radar R77 missiles, more modern than the older Slovakian and Polish MIGs. Egypt may be open to it if they can get some F16s to replace apparently. And coming from a non NATO source might be felt as less escalatory.

https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/suppor...ong-war-2/

Here from WaPo, sounds like the Ukrainian pilots really just want F16s themselves. Doesn't seem like the US is close to being there yet, but I think it makes sense to at least start training some pilots on them for now for the long haul.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/202...-russians/

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Finnish and Swedish PMs at joint press conference today indicating plans to move ahead with NATO membership. Putin making a play for dumbest "special military operation" in past 100 years. 

https://news.yahoo.com/finland-sweden-mo...00147.html

Poland sending upgraded Soviet tanks to Ukraine, joining Czechs.

[Tweet]https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1514236244263378946?s=20&t=xq23Cv7iAIVNuUl8V2KPww[/tweet]

I suspect it's only a matter of time until the MIGs are going over as well. I've seen some discussion that perhaps the best MIGs to send are recent models from Egypt that are equipped with newer active radar R77 missiles, more modern than the older Slovakian and Polish MIGs. Egypt may be open to it if they can get some F16s to replace apparently. And coming from a non NATO source might be felt as less escalatory.

https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/suppor...ong-war-2/

Here from WaPo, sounds like the Ukrainian pilots really just want F16s themselves. Doesn't seem like the US is close to being there yet, but I think it makes sense to at least start training some pilots on them for now for the long haul.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/202...-russians/