Hmm... "Muslim immigrants are turning Europe into an Islamic State" "George Soros financing immigrants" foxbot Macgregor.. Nahh, pass on the video.
FWIW, Trump also had Mike Qanon Flynn, another general, as an advisor. Saying someone was a Trump advisor shouldn't be an automatic disqualification but it does warrant closer inspection.
And I though @Gatling's 200k/150k ratio was absurd!
But the comments on the video are comical.
Posted this for giggles.
1,600 Ukrainians dead in the last 24 hours.
This guy was an advisor to Trump, and according to his video history was interviewed by Donald Trump Jr in the last week.
There was no explosion because those missiles are not in Ukraine, right @Gatling
Depends on what goodies are supplied with them. If they were given long range AA missiles and the long range ARM missiles, they would be very potent in taking out Russian AA sites. Existing MIG jets can launch the decoy cruise missiles, followed by storm shadow ones. The decoys cause the SAM site to light up, F16's launch the long range ARM missiles and take out the SAM radar. It means the storm shadow's have a better chance of hitting their target.
No point giving Ukraine modern jets if they are limited with their use or hamstrung and need to resort to risky tactics.
Interesting Royal United Services Institute report on evolving Russian tactics
https://static.rusi.org/403-SR-Russian-Tactics-web-final.pdf
Apparently, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands will have excess F-16s as they are being replaced by the newer F-35.
Probably will catch a few Russian jet's out when they first arrive with long range missiles but Russians will just launch their attacks from further back. That's a good thing though.
They'll probably also have success hitting Russian logistics hubs within Ukraine. It won't change the war massively but it's another necessary advantage Ukraine should have.
Sounds like it's more of the same. They'll have the quality now they just need quantity. The continued training of Ukrainian soldier's in Western countries will be a massive help also.
If we accept the F-16s are coming, how big a difference will they make?
"They'll never get nukes, large warships or submarines obviously but what other conventional weapons could they get?"
Maybe some attack helicopters like the Apache might be of use?
UK haven't even the capacity to train their own pilots at that rate currently... from zero to Typhoon or F-35 is looking at 3-5 years at the moment.
But, as mentioned previously, with the return of simulators and 2 seater F-16's to Europe (RNLAF) and the addition of Draken into the mix, the UK could quite possible support a 2 year time frame, but wouldn't be able to provide it independently.
Ukrainian pilots wouldn't be working from scratch either. The conversion training taken on by Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian (Slovak?)pilots is actually a 6 month program to get to advanced level with the F-16. They are usually in the US though on and off for over a year, as the USAF warm them up on T-6's and T-38's before entering the 6 month F-16 program. What everyone is looking at is a "Lite" version of this program for Ukraine. How much can be stripped out though is the big question...
Bigger and longer range missiles. Though they probably just need more and more of what they are already getting.
The Ukrainian pilots don't need to master dog fighting. Outside the first few week's of the war this is irrelevant. They need to learn how to take off, fire a missile from miles back, launch flares and land.
Considering it's missile launching planes they need and not dog fighters is F16 still the best option?
After they get these and the Abrams later this year what reasonable weapons can the West even give to Ukraine? Obviously more of the same but it seems all the boxes are nearly ticket.
They'll never get nukes, large warships or submarines obviously but what other conventional weapons could they get?
right, the pilots are not being trained from scratch at all, they're seasoned pilots transferring their skills to new machinery. So the RAF ret. commentors take for 2 years of training for young novices doesn't apply to the time frame. Therefore there is still standing to reports that F16s could be operational by the UAF within a matter of as short as 4-6 months. No reason to disagree that the first wave of novice replacement pilots, after the air veterans are trained on the F16, would be closer to the timeframe that commenter provided.
F16s have always been exported to non Nato countries,
Yes it's made by America and others under license, but it's the British RAF training the pilots ,the evaluation in America involved 2 pilots in simulators not actually learning to fly F16s from scratch..
considering the americans design the thing and own the production of it and they were in the US, not the UK, doing the pilot evaluation, on US simulators etc. I think they'd know better than the RAF in this circumstance.
Bahrain receiving f16s equals proof Ukraine are getting them
Dispels any preconceived notion they wont get any because they are non nato.
Considering the RAF is providing the training in their flight schools I think he's better qualified over anyone on here,
where??
Yes as I said building for the future not a few weeks
I'm honestly scarlet for you at this stage lol
Darth Putin has it sussed - Ukrainians will get the fighter jets it needs. Slower than desired but death by a thousand cuts for the Russian military operation.
Your "former RAF Commander" shouldn't have a nose turned up at them, they obviosuly have the experience to give advice here but that doesn't make them the be all and end all here. It doesn't make sense to write off every other estimation of training time for this man's take.
Vs an identified UK air vice Marshall who explained who ,when , and what for .
Yes, for 'youngsters with no piloting experience' according to your own sources.
Depends on if they are targeting the civilian population or placing the civilian population at excessive risk. At this point, I'd be surprised if there is much civilian population left
Yahoo = corroborated documents ,
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Yahoo that's actually funny
During my time in Afghanistan, I was in Ghor province, and you have two high ranges to climb to get there, with a valley and two passes in between. There's no road as such, just a track, and in parts, definitely not for the faint-hearted. Many's the time I've passed broken down trucks stopped on the side of the road. On one occasion, the truck was stopped and they had the truck transmission out on the side of the road, and were working on it, while the family sat around on blankets, under an umbrella drinking tea. Two days later on my way back, the truck was fixed and gone. The most common trucks there were old Russian ex military MAZ ones, belching black smoke, making horrible noises, but by God, could they handle the Mountainous Afghan roads! They would load them nearly a mtr above the height of the creels, (and these creels extended out over the cab), Put the passengers on top of that, inc. the animals, and set off. The accidents of course were horrendous.
Yes, Zelenskyy accused the Russians of this very thing, recently.
Internal USAF assessment that training of these pre-trained Ukraine pilots will take about 4 months. Yahoo! corroborated.
Countries are willing to send f16s to Ukraine ...and now that the US has giving its blessing they will.... They can start training pilots for 4 months and of they go
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/basic-f-16-training-for-ukrainian-pilots-could-take-just-four-months
Isn't that a UN war crime?
That will only make support for Ukraine flow faster.
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