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Report: Ukraine receives first batch of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets
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Report: Ukraine receives first batch of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published August 1, 2024
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Report: Ukraine receives first batch of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets

FILE – An F-16 fighter lands at a Turkish air base within the Central Anatolian Turkish metropolis of Konya on Sept. 8, 2004. Norway mentioned Wednesday, July 10, 2024, it is going to donate six F-16 in the midst of 2024 to Ukraine as a result of Kyiv’s “ability to defend itself against attacks from the air is absolutely crucial in its defensive battle against Russia.”

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Ukraine has acquired its first batch of long-awaited American-made F-16 fighter jets that can assist the nation combat again towards Russia’s superior air energy, in response to information studies.

A high advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, mentioned he would neither affirm nor deny Ukraine had acquired the F-16s. Different Ukrainian officers have been equally tight-lipped.

Nonetheless, Lithuania’s Overseas Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis mentioned on X, quote, “F-16s in Ukraine. Another impossible thing turned out to be totally possible.”

4 European members of NATO – the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Norway – have publicly pledged to ship the warfare planes to Ukraine, beginning this summer season.

Bloomberg reported a small variety of planes has simply arrived in Ukraine, although there was no speedy phrase on which nation despatched them or what number of had reached Ukraine.

Zelenskyy has mentioned that Ukraine says it wants greater than 100 of the US-made plane to successfully counter Russia, which has a properly over 1,000 of its personal fighter jets.

Ukraine’s present air pressure is comparatively small and consists largely of ageing, Soviet-era plane the nation inherited when it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The planes are weak to the Russian forces and do not typically take to the sky.

Ukraine has relied largely on air defenses to maintain the Russians from fully dominating the skies over Ukraine. These air defenses have been upgraded with Western techniques, like U.S.-made Patriot missile batteries.

However Ukraine has been insisting because the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022 that it additionally wanted efficient fighter jets.

President Biden and U.S. army leaders had lengthy opposed sending the F-16s, citing a variety of causes. One was a priority over an escalation within the combating. One other is that the F-16s are extraordinarily costly and difficult to keep up, and people sources might be higher utilized by offering Ukraine with air protection techniques and different weapons.

Nonetheless, Biden dropped his opposition in August of 2023. Ukrainian pilots have been receiving coaching in variety of NATO nations, together with the U.S.

Many army analysts say they consider the F-16s will assist Ukraine, however they aren’t anticipated to end in a significant change within the trajectory of the warfare. Additionally they say they assume Ukraine will use the warplanes primarily to counter Russian air assaults.

They word that Russia has sturdy air defenses and the F-16s shall be weak when finishing up offensive operations.

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