...the elephant in the room no one is mentioning is,"where is Ukraine going to fly these planes from?
...any airbase in country will immediately be taken out by Russia, which leaves them flying out of, let's say Poland, and that gives the green light for Russia to do bad things there...
...one other point is that it takes a minimum of 6 months to retrain a pilot to fly an f16...
A lot of areas outside and around said airfields are already taken over our are on the verge of being taken over by Russia. But, more importantly, it takes on average 2 yrs to train fighter pilots. It isn't an easy thing to fly those planes, let alone fight with them. So, my question is, where is Ukraine going to get the pilots from? Even the PMCs that have contracts over there don't have jet fighters or qualified pilots.
Seems to me Zelensky is begging for them as a smoke screen for more money laundering ops, or possibly trying to get them so he can then say, "Hey, we need pilots now." This is paving the way for U.S./UK/NATO involvement. Aka, WWIII.
...the elephant in the room no one is mentioning is,"where is Ukraine going to fly these planes from?
...any airbase in country will immediately be taken out by Russia, which leaves them flying out of, let's say Poland, and that gives the green light for Russia to do bad things there...
...one other point is that it takes a minimum of 6 months to retrain a pilot to fly an f16...
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-pilots-would-need-six-months-f-16-combat-training-2023-01-27/
...the war will be over by then....
A lot of areas outside and around said airfields are already taken over our are on the verge of being taken over by Russia. But, more importantly, it takes on average 2 yrs to train fighter pilots. It isn't an easy thing to fly those planes, let alone fight with them. So, my question is, where is Ukraine going to get the pilots from? Even the PMCs that have contracts over there don't have jet fighters or qualified pilots.
Seems to me Zelensky is begging for them as a smoke screen for more money laundering ops, or possibly trying to get them so he can then say, "Hey, we need pilots now." This is paving the way for U.S./UK/NATO involvement. Aka, WWIII.
...I heard 36 months but I could not find sauce on that so I went with what I went with....
...compelling observation...