F-16 Officially In Ukrainian Service

[SolarWarden]

It is not just a matter of flying. It takes years of training to operate a combat system as complex as the F16. Then, there is the issue of maintenance and logistics. Also, weapons integrations, what weapons can these aircraft actually deploy, etc etc etc. not all of these F16's are actually up to the latests standards, so, they cannot all carry up to date weapons. Then, consider that nowhere in Ukraine is out of range of the Russians.

So you're saying it is easier to tinker with a soviet era fighter to carry US/NATO made weapons than an F-16? Is that what you are saying?

These are MLU F-16's so they can deploy just about everything in US arsenal when it comes to air to ground. Dutch and likely US personnel kept these F-16's doing a lot of work on them so it wouldn't surprise me if they uploaded software to be able to deploy certain types of weapons.

 

[KingQamaR]

So you're saying it is easier to tinker with a soviet era fighter to carry US/NATO made weapons than an F-16? Is that what you are saying?

These are MLU F-16's so they can deploy just about everything in US arsenal when it comes to air to ground. Dutch and likely US personnel kept these F-16's doing a lot of work on them so it wouldn't surprise me if they uploaded software to be able to deploy certain types of weapons.

Polish WZL 4 shop made Polish
MiG-29's modification that is capable to use NATO weaponry AIM-120,/ AMRAAM, HARM and others.

As previously some of Polish MiG-29's are/were DDR/Luftwaffe and Poland have acquire German Government to allow passing them to Ukraine,

 

[Lulldapull]

Hard to believe poor peepal arguing about manned airpower when its a third tier option today......EVIDENTLY!

Russian Su-34's sneak in once a week releasing glide bombs from 50 miles away and turn tail like bitches on heat at the first sniff of air defenses. And the Uki's barely struggling to even make that happen......