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Tomcat1974's avatar

I think people are overthinking too much the F-16 coming to Ukraine.

After me is quite simple.

They need a plane to fill out he attrition due to war. (which happens either way you take it) .

Ukr is running out of older Mig-29 and Su-27. And they can't replenish their stocks. Cannibalization get you that much.

So, what you have the best candidate for replacement? What plane has a shit metric ton of spare part - they were plenty produced, could be armed with more modern weapons and could be provide in numbers to compensate the old-Soviet attritions?

F-16 in various forms and shapes.

No need to think as wunderwaffe, or magic plane, or War changer.

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Edu Lopez's avatar

As always, a heartfelt thanks. I pointed your posts to some people, like me, not so versed in modern air warfare and they found it clear, concise and very formative; I wish you to know that.

Maybe I’m not “tainted” with “commercial advertising”, and may focus on the true capabilities of aircrafts in real combat situations, so all your updates are a gold’s mine to my knowledge of aerial combat. Hope other people found it as useful as me.

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