Sputnik International Amid the Kiev regime’s clamor for more weapons deliveries from the West, particularly fighter jets, in February, US President Joe Biden said F-16 jets Ukraine was seeking were off the table “for now.”
If Kiev were ever to finally get the American F-16 fighter jets they “might not last very long”, air-warfare analyst for the UK’s Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) think tank Justin Bronk believes.
Also dubbed the Fighting Falcon, General Dynamics’ F-16 multirole fighter aircraft requires specially prepared airbases and air strips – something that Ukraine would need to work on. Most Ukrainian airfields are “too short” and “austere” to allow for safe utilization by a fully loaded F-16, Bronk said, cited by the Geopolitics Decanted podcast.
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