[dabigv13]

Netherlands and Denmark announced the donation of their F16's today, as expected.

Good article on road ahead now.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/uk...neral-says

But even if Ukraine does get F-16s next year, it won't likely have enough pilots who can fly them into combat to anywhere near their potential before 2027, Hecker said.

“You can get proficient on some weapons systems fairly quickly. “It takes a while to build a couple of squadrons of F-16s and to get their readiness high enough and their proficiency high enough. This could be four or five years down the road.”

Seems that even if they had been fast tracked from the start, they would not really have made a substantial difference in the current offensive. Still will be a good capability to have at some point obviously.

[dabigv13]

Netherlands and Denmark announced the donation of their F16's today, as expected.

Good article on road ahead now.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/uk...neral-says

But even if Ukraine does get F-16s next year, it won't likely have enough pilots who can fly them into combat to anywhere near their potential before 2027, Hecker said.

“You can get proficient on some weapons systems fairly quickly. “It takes a while to build a couple of squadrons of F-16s and to get their readiness high enough and their proficiency high enough. This could be four or five years down the road.”

Seems that even if they had been fast tracked from the start, they would not really have made a substantial difference in the current offensive. Still will be a good capability to have at some point obviously.