Fair to say that Hiberno English does not be Dennis's thing!!
The Americans said 18 months at least to train pilots and the essential ground crews to maintain the f16s , what's the current maintenance ratio 30 hours maintenance for every hour flown ,and that's it's there isn't any kind of delays or bottlenecks,but no one currently knows what or who's training,
16/17 man hours per flight hour.
That's averaged over the lifespan. It doesn't mean after each 1hr flight it's grounded for 16 hours servicing between sorties.
There is. I think someone on here mentioned they were going to use it to learn their way around some of the systems, and the English, before they used a more complete training sim.
Could be truth in these latest rantings and a couple other well known propagandists are reporting the Orc Ministry is withholding true casualty figures and Russian losses are said to be substantial.
The "so far" is what makes the statement so silly.
I like a flutter.
I am willing to bet that
a) There will be Ukrainian troops being trained on F-16s before the year is out
b) A firm announcement from a country gifting X number of F-16s and/or F-18s to Ukraine before the year is out.
Are you a betting man?
I hope all this is true but Prigozhin is going to spin it his way because he is bitter with the Russian leadership.
True, nothing concrete at the moment.
But, if Ukraine won't take these aircraft, then they are going to the shredder. So it would be a shame to waste these given that Ukraine is begging for 4th generation NATO fighter jets.
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I wouldn't believe a word out of Prigozhins mouth
'nother helicopter shot down
18 months from scratch... 6 months usually for F-16 conversion training similar for ground crews.... Romanian's and Polish programs were total about 12-18 months as they included preliminary fighter training on other types (T-38 etc...), English language program, time off to go home, and advanced warfare tactics after the conversion course
I was wondering if they could trim down training so it would focus entirely on anti-air combat to neutralize Russian air power. Leave the rest till later.
I like your thinking. Give them so many planes they won't need to maintain/repair them!
They are already doing that with the mig29 flying Harm / Wild Weasel missions
Which is likely going to happen with Ukraine too ,they will be leaning Western aircraft and tactics and maintenance on Aircraft they have never operated before,not pilots and maintenaners who have operated similar western Aircraft since they graduated from flight academies
The two Ukrainians behind this got 5 and 3 days detention for this today.
I see now where you get your warped news from. That telegram channel is a disgusting cesspit of vatniks glorifying genocide. Here's the translation of the text from Russian in that video...
"A trial took place over Ukrainian pigs in Mariupol: the boar will sit for 5 days, and the sow for 3 days. No, well, at least something more than just an apology, a few nights in the detention center is better than just the useless apologies we are used to. There the filthy nurse said something worse and nothing: she apologized and was not even fired.
But, of course, here it was necessary to act tougher and give up to 30 days"
We can see here in microcosm how Russia acts and would act in occupation of Ukraine.
This is what Russian peace looks like for those not executed or tortured or conscripted. And the useful idiots of the world like Clare Daly advocate for such a 'peace'.
It wasn't an endorsement, these two people were imprisoned for nothing.
The only peace Daly is interested in is the peace of the grave.
By any objective measurement Ukraine are doing very well at the moment, I really think the naysaying has a lot to do with the culture of instant gratification combined with as O'Brien says, a lack of understanding.
Prigozhin's rant is really quite telling, even though he is obviously exagerating (it's highly unlikely Ukraine are in Sadove.... yet) the increasing Ukrainian attacks on Russian logistics have to be having a big effect on the state of Russian combat abilities.
The Russians also appear to be using their reserves trying to stop Ukraine at the front line instead of waiting behind their fortifications (maby Putin has a "no step back" doctrine going) consequently getting heavily attrited in the open, while the main Ukrainian force hasn't even come into play yet.
Nice one. Antonovsky bridge part 2.
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Also "Here's a retired US expert claiming Ukrainian special forces did it with NATO assistance".
I would assume this is an isloated incident as wouldn't all of those returned prisoners soldiers receive ongoing support & counselling for the horrors they have inflicted witnessed as a result of their participation in the war special military operation?
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an Israeli jewish NAZI missile hit the plant at wrong point
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