Europe News: NEW DELHI: Ukraine is on the brink of a significant enhancement in its air defense capabilities, with its pilots undergoing training on the potentiall.
The biggest thing F-16 will provide to Ukraine is the fact it has been integrated with so many different weapons already. Almost any western nation can just ship their weird domestic flavor missile and there is a damn good chance it will just work with the F-16.
Why? Because F-16 was so highly produced and so cheap that almost every western country owns F-16 and has integrated their weapons with it already.
The biggest thing F-16 will provide to Ukraine is the fact it has been integrated with so many different weapons already. Almost any western nation can just ship their weird domestic flavor missile and there is a damn good chance it will just work with the F-16.
Why? Because F-16 was so highly produced and so cheap that almost every western country owns F-16 and has integrated their weapons with it already.
I agree with you. The F-16’s primary value to Ukraine will be as a fully NATO integrated missile truck.
A dogfight or three will inevitably occur but they’ll be a “Wrong Place / Wrong Time” happenstance rather than designated Air Combat scenarios.