How will F16 fighter jets change the war in Ukraine? | DW Analysis
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2023
- To answer this question and many more, DW interviewed Douglas Lute, Chair of International & Defense Practices at BGR Group. He's a former lieutenant general in the US army and a former US Ambassador to NATO.
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#douglaslute #nato #f16
I wouldn't say ''Too little too late'', I'd say ''A day late and a dollar short'' but go on 😃
oh nice one
These planes, as with the Abrams tanks, are for long term defense. Too little too late is a very misinformed statement. Ukraine needs to ability to deter future aggression, whether they retake the full Donbas or not. Not everything is focused on the short term. Thank god we have military experts who understand this.
Well, we certainly have had no shortage of cowardly lying politicians, making their usual grandiose promises & backing them up with the words "... eventually" & " probably, maybe..."
Pootin' clearly isn't the only president of a country that drinks all of his kool-aid.
Nobody's taking evil Putin seriously now. Thank you to Denmark and to the Netherlands.
You mean nobody is taking evil Biden and Zelensky serious
The F-16s don't change anything.
If any other leader was in Russia instead of Putin, there is not a country called Ukraine now,
So what? We're gonna die in a Nuclear fire.
@@miamitrancemissions6425 "The F-16s don't change anything."
Bollocks. Even if they're not enough to single-handedly end the war, they will certainly make a difference.
"Too little too late" very German headline. I salute by tipping my helmet!
War is not a soccer match.
Jugding without facts is even easier.
That pretty much describes the entire Western effort.
The west is focused on keeping the military industrial complex going. Not in helping Ukraine win. Wake up!!!
They should know….
German people knows what's the consequences to fight with Russia,thats why US doesn't dare to be in the front.
Biden is a vicious coward
We looking for peace.
Great. Ask Putin to leave
@@anthonyhulse1248 OK sir
During the Korean war, the Soviet Union sent advanced fighter jets to North Korea. They were painted with North Korean colors, but were flown by Soviet pilots. That was not seen as some "escalation," so following the Russian sent precedent, fighters are more than fair game to send to Ukraine.
You can do whatever you want to your enemy except dictate how they respond to your actions. Saying something happened in the Korean War that set precedent so therefore it can't be considered escalation by the enemy is trying to dictate the response from Russia. They are free to react however they want.
The US is not going to send active military to fight in Ukraine, but private citizens who have retired from the military can obviously decide for themselves if they want to go to Ukraine. Just like the foreign ground forces that are fighting in Ukraine as volunteers.
You start off talking about the soviet union then switch to Russia like they are the same thing. The soviet union consisted of Ukraine and many now NATO countries. your comparison is ridicules and only highlights your ignorance and low intelligence. Is this a result of your western education?
@@Djamonja I wonder if any will. The US obviously won't send any active members, but it would be interesting to see if any pilots volunteered to go.
@@quinnjackson9252 >but it would be interesting to see if any pilots volunteered to go.
ppl with such a good trade will go to Ukraine ("most corrupt country of an Europe") unofficially, meaning no gov rescue or any support in and after if thing go south to them or families while all media shouts about requirement problems? And with all these returned "gooses" talks about their "great" expirience with UA officials, stuff and their own collegues? Yeah, seems sooo tempting. Homeless pilots with mental needs mb intrested.
Just as Leopard tank changed the war.....
well it did not exactly make things worse either (at least not for UA) :D this will be similar
Russia hitting Ukraine. Hit Russia, no escalation. Equal fight
But it doesn't change anything
@@miamitrancemissions6425of course it does more Russian losses . They are losing more personnel than Ukraine with planes much more but there is no magic portion
Send your sons
US hitting Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Hi US. No escalation. Equal fight 😂
@@umerbutt2644 I'm not American thanks for worrying
“To little to late” isn’t that what all the important weapons that are given to Ukraine are. Remember leopards, long range rockets. I think the USA and other Nato countries are to cautious and conservative in its policy to approve arms delivery to Ukraine. In the end it will cost more, lives and money, than going in full throttle.
they're doing enough to keep them in the fight, not to win. Makes me wonder what the West's motives are, do they benefit from dragging this out longer than it needs to be? I'm not sure.
They just checking that it will be useless. For example leopards, but without air support by giving russia enough time to mine everything. They just have agreements, except russia not fulfilled their end of bargain by capturing whole Ukraine in 2 weeks. Sullivan very upset, his place in Rosneft is further with each day. I guess with F-16 will be something similar - some ban to shoot at russian targets.
The F-16 is not the right issue! The immediate key to unlocking all these problems is to send the long range missiles, that can be fired from the ground, to break Russian logistic lines in Crimea and the land corridor. Already, today ISW is reporting that Russian logistical lines are barely functioning in Crimea due continual missile bombardment from the Ukrainians. My God!!! Finish them off!! What is Biden waiting for??? His defeat in 2024 if he does not win this war!!! What kind of advice is he getting??? Are they that cowardly???
You’re only saying this because the fighting is in Europe. Anywhere else you would call the US warmongers.
@@sparks1792 And you are from Africa I guess?
Guided bombs launched from F-16s are much cheaper than cruise missiles with close to the same impact.
Yes, because F16 is superduper stealth, with a forcefield and time displacement generator, making it immune to Russian cruise missiles and air defense systems that destroyed the better planes Ukraine had before.
Without suppressing Russia’s capable air defense systems a single smart-bomb sortie could be hideously expensive. This is a drone/missile/rocket/artillery war, not a smart-bomb and CAS war.
It's a decent platform that can deliver state-of-the-art missiles.@@springbloom5940
@@CorePathway 30 years in the middle east has gotten people too used to thinking the enemy wont be able to fight back against air power, flying aircraft into the teeth of modern air defense system is suicidal in this day and age.. and is also the reason the Russians are so wary of flying into Ukraine held territory as well...
from what we've seen so far this will likely go down in the history books as the first Drone war such is the influence they're having on the battle field..
A glide bomb can be dropped far away from the target, out of the range of some air defense systems.
Recipe for disaster no runway in Ukraine is long enough for F-16s
*Ukraine used to own the largest transport aircraft in the world...* "Bro they don't have long enough runways..." 😂
@@link10909 those where Russian airtcraft along with the nuclear weapons the west claims Ukraine gave up 🤣
@@floridaadventuresports3921Lol ok there champ.
After the announcement of advanced hardware, Russia always says it will “escalate” the situation. If that was truly the case, why didn’t they just escalate to the max in the very beginning? Before the arrival of the advanced hardware ☠️
That’s easy Russia lies ,only when their lips though….Russia is done both the economy and military just takes time as the free world has not done enough to help as it should of.
Because they have no where to escalate to. The next step is nukes.
@@APW554😂😂😂joker u will be suprised
US should send their transgender admiral . It will be a real game changer.
They been saying many times. we already know they have escalated as much as they possibly can.... barring nukes, which ofc would result in all of Russia being reduced to rubble.
Everybody's talking about the silver bullet F16 as they did about the Leopard tanks which resulted in more hype than positive results ...So they expect that the F16 will fly freely over ukraine without being challenged by the Russian airforce? ...why doesn't anybody consider this option...too afraid to face the negative consequences...Thy think the Russians will simply watch!
Each is an incremental step forward . Always remember it is probably in the best interests of NATO for this war to continue until Russia is SEVERLY weakened
The Russians will attack the air bases the moment the planes are delivered. And NATO will just sit back and watch. Like it has been since February 2022. This is a joke. Fighting to the last Ukrainian!!!
Early days yet for the Leopard. You are pretty naive to think war doesn't take time.
Russia doesn't dare fly its jets over Ukrainian airspace now. MANPADS everywhere.
@@cloudpoint0 I don’t know of any man pad that can hit a jet flying at 50 thousand feet or more
Old planes and high maintenance?
Goes well with the insane debt repayments from the loans
Should have been delivered last year!
Better late than never .
WHY SO HYPE ABOUT F-16. THEY ARE OUTDATED. TOY PLANES. THEY WERE SHOT DOWN BY INDIAN PILOT DURING INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT. THEY ARE GARBAGE YOU WILL SEE IT.
@@user-ul3hk6hf2etheoretically now they can test them aswell. Doesnt matter when they get delivered, right, nitwit?
The US is using Ukraine in a proxy war. It doesnt matter what we're talking about here. Everything is calculated by the US so that they take up as much time to stall all deliveries.
This will totally change everything! 👍Well, at least for those people responsible for maintaining it, the'll get nice place somewhere in Italy)
WHY SO HYPE ABOUT F-16. THEY ARE OUTDATED. TOY PLANES. THEY WERE SHOT DOWN BY INDIAN PILOT DURING INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT. THEY ARE GARBAGE YOU WILL SEE IT.
Just like the leopards right? 😂 what you gonna beg next? F-35? Air craft Carriers? Nuk3s? 😂
He will request american soldiers
Of course there’s going to be an escalation..that comes with war in order to recapture their lost territories.. how would Germany feel if East Germany was taken over again by the Russians..would west Germans care or fight for their lost territories? We must ask ourselves the same if our home was invaded..will our neighbors help us or be critical in trying to regain our homes back.
East Germany was taken over by the Eastern Europeans Poles, after WW2.
The Russians left eastern Germany, which the Anglo-Saxons used to occupy that part as well.
Eastern Germany was occupied by the USSR (Ukraine was also a republic in the Soviet Union btw.)
East Germany however was a separate country which was formed out of the territory which made up the Soviet sector.
@@user-lf2jh2ru9f odd, i dont recall a single east german accusing any anglo-saxons of occupation, i was treated incredibly well when i was there, occupiers dont get that
@@sergueivergounov1961 why would anyone want to speak against democracy?
this is not Iraq /Afghanistan/Libya , this is call mighty Russia . what every NATO give Ukraine they are loss this war .
Mighty Russia? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ... that is so funny.
how many country in NATO member . 31 country vs Russia . so Russia is mighty country . please accept truth @@boink800
Nothing can change
According to the Dutch MOD website, the Netherlands has currently 24 F16 left. Denmark delivers 19. That makes 43. Zelensky mentioned 42. So I think 1 will go into the military museum. But I think 60 F16 is wrong. We don't have those numbers.
Denmark is also selling many of these F-16s to Argentina.
@@miamitrancemissions6425Argentina will buy tejas mk1a
Usa have thousands of retired f16 . So usa had donated some of f16s.
@@manasmishra8945 No, the USA only gave permission. The USA did not donate anything F 16 yet.
Netherlands has 42 F-16s, not 24. Some are still in active service so might not be given for year.
Putin said he will wave the nuke if Ukraine got F16 . Now what ? Putin will slap himself again?
Anyone interferes - red line
send artillery - red line
send long range rocket artillery - red line
send tanks- red line
send cruise missiles - red line
send jets - red line
Putin has more red lines then a candy cane and all he does when we cross them is pout.
Source of him saying that?
@@VytautasLDKyour mom 🕳️ CURVA?
haha , again & again , europe has crossed the putin red line ,
@@VytautasLDK Putin's meat puppet Lavrov said it. Its of course nonsense Ukraine has had multiple platforms capable of delivering nukes since before the war started.
Russia will regard Western F-16 fighter jets sent to Ukraine as a "nuclear" threat because of their capacity to carry atomic weapons, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said..
"Russia cannot ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. No amount of assurances will help here," Lavrov was quoted as saying by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"In the course of combat operations, our servicemen are not going to sort out whether each particular aircraft of this type is equipped to deliver nuclear weapons or not.
"We will regard the very fact that the Ukrainian armed forces have such systems as a threat from the West in the nuclear sphere."
A German news agency saying too little too late? You might want to look at the aid given by each country and remind me who has given far more than the rest. Germany SHOULD be 2nd on that list, seeing how they are the richest European country, but no.
Sounds like a logistical nightmare. These planes won't change anything. The f-16 needs soo much maintenance and clean runways.
This won't have any effect, just like the previous game changer, Leopard II
The truth that nobody wants to admit.
No one who knows anything about military matters seriously expects the relatively small number of these weapons systems to single-handedly decide the war, but they do help. "Game changer", of course, has always been BS hype spread by overly enthusiastic or outright clueless folks.
How come you can comment here, I thought internet was censored in your dictatorship country?
Just like the Javelin, himars...
Kiev in 3 days...
Kharkiv...
Kherson....
Game has actually changed a lot.
@@wtl912 What about the results? Ukraine is in ruins, begging for weapons all over the world to continue sending young lives into the meat grinder. Kiev has only one purpose: to serve as cannon fodder for the United States, execute Biden's orders to fight until the last Ukrainian, and then Zelensky can go to the White House to receive the award. Sadly, Ukraine has chosen an American agent as president
Are they forgetting russia has bombed the drones convention easily recently?
Let alone huge hangers of F-16
Maintenance team
Logistic
Arm depot
And the plane itself will be bombed
maintenance place probable is gonna be somewhere out of Ukraine
Russia will catch f16 alive and send to display in Moscow
Don’t fret Tovarich, it will all be over some day.
Not too late. The precision Ground and Air Strike augmentation in winter with precision modern ISR especially when ground forces actions have slowed down provides for sustenance of attrition and degradation of enemy logistics and air superiority. This also facilitates use of " strategic" arsenal/ munition should the adversary resort to adventurism. A progressively and time critically progressed empowerment.
I hope my government gets its act together and provides the Taurus missiles before the F-16 jets arrive in Ukraine but I doubt it.
As a german citizen, I completely agree. Send TAURUS!
So when are you going to the front to kill Russian or are you just another western coward calling for others to go fight for your feeling/beliefs?
Scholz is slowing down and slowing down in favor of Putin. Just as he realises that Putin is prepared, he decides to deliver. Whether it be Leopards or Taurus, he decides too late. Realize that Germany will be next one in line after Ukraine and Poland. Putin is playing Domino with the former SU-alied countries. Poor Germans that you are governed by people who are still traumatised by the 2nd worldwar.
@@moffig1they are as useless as your leopards
'War Pimps'
Victory always comes down to who has the best experience, I mean real life combat warfare, not just 8 month training. That's how Ariel combat works.
The people training to be f 16 fighterpilots are, as I understand it, fighterpilots alredy. So the first pilots and mechanics/groundcrew should be ready around new year.
@@kirstinevad347
No
@@springbloom5940 Yes, according to our PM.
game changer👍
I had to check the channel for a second there. For a moment, I thought I was watching a BBC News headline.
What would be the re-sale-value for these F 16
just in case cash is needed
One could draw comparison with the Korean War. Russian pilots flew Migs against American pilots during the conflict.
Lute is most astute. I learned a lot from listening to him.
Lute is a political general, not a warfighting general.
Another wonder weapon
It’s definitely not ending the war like a couple jets vs hundreds of battalions of Air Force brigades
The leopards changed the flaw of history and so will do the f16.
Where will these F16's take off/land?
poland
It's unfortunate that ukraine has to to wait all this time for f16's to be delivered because all that does is give time for Russia to get prepared
replace aging soviet aircraft’s with 43 year old aircrafts
Mr. Putin wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming " escalation!!!".
"Putin days are numbered, Urine is winning, Russia out of ammo!". I hear stuff like this from kids like you since march 2022
Here we go again " The Game Changer". Remember It's not fighting like Iraq or Afghanistan.
America was in Afghanistan for 20 years, we're not going to get tired or bored of supporting Ukraine. They're actually saving us money by taking all our old, outdated equipment, which costs money to store and decommission. Thank you Ukraine! 😅
Trump enter the chat....
@@Delpatioohe is to old
Save us money! BS, USA Congress and Biden is right now making new deals with military industrial complex to replace that old stuff with more expensive stuff at taxpayers expense.
From US War is Bussiness as usual my friends, when there’s war it’s Good for Bussiness when there’s none bad for Bussiness. So let’s start create and prolong one! K
@@DelpatiooTrump Dumpster fire is heading to prison!
give em 80's planes to replace 80's planes. lol
"The goal is to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war." - Julian Assange
Freedom and democracy is sadly not a good definition for Ukraine.
As I understand it, the two versions differ in terms of systems
it would be equipped with b61-mod12
Ukrainians are planning to take off from parking lots?
It's crazy that so few F16 aircraft have been donated. Ukraine needs a couple of hundred aircraft.
They don't come cheap
There are hundreds in storage.
Finally US and Russia to fight a nuclear war???
America 20yrs in Afghanistan. Putin’s going to have to be patient if he’s counting on a waiting game.
this is much costlier both in terms material and human life than the one in Afghanistan,there is no way this war is going on for 10 years
Ukraine is a province of russia, the Russian will never give up their mother land ❤
@@ankpms830 This is how the Dutch in the 19th century also thought about the Belgians. The same language and customs, but the Belgians did not want to belong to the Dutch. In the end, things did not end well for the Dutch. And there are many examples from history.
@@AbuBawa-sw1ut
I think he means that the US could continue military support for Ukraine for years when most of the aid is outdated already paid for
kit that US tax payers would have had to pay additional money to decommission anyways. The US isn't losing American lives
over years like in Afghanistan.It's clearing out it's warehouses and putting in orders for new stuff. The US Defense sector is making
huge profits out of the fighting in Ukraine and again, US troops are not being killed or maimed.
Norway already announced they were joining the F16 coalition!
Too late? Unlikely. Late? Absolutely, and they'd better train some good numbers of pilots also, not what I've heard. We had 60 some in just our class, and another batch 4 weeks later. They need at least two full-size classes and simulators inside Ukraine.
They need about 5000 master degrees and fully qualifications engineers all fluent in English.
Sending tanks without air cover was like ordering the tank crews to commit suicide. I understand that it was easier to get the tanks there faster, but we should have committed to the F-16's sooner. It feels like a desperate last gasp.
Its not the F-16s themselves.Its the logistics infrastructure that is so much more involved than what is needed to support western MBTs.
Nobody wants to say it.But I think the western plan all along was for Ukraine and Russia to fight to a negotiated peace where Russia keeps
much of what it now holds and releases all claims to the rest of Ukraine which will be folded into NATO and the EU.
The post war Ukrainian state could than be armed to the teeth with NATO weapons and have NATO troops from the US/UK/Poland stationed
within it's borders. A new "Iron Curtin" would be drawn across Ukraine.
It will only give them problem
well it's planned the first delivery of 6 end of year (2023), when will they fly, depends on the pilots also. but they will initially most likely be used for protecting the cities from slow and low flying "cruise missiles" they can spot and engage them at longer distance then ground based systems which are limited in detection radius by the curvature of the earth. this is btw also a fairly easy/low risk task for the newly trained pilots, so gives them more IRL experiance for later offensive attacks.
but importantly is that this a huge part of Ukraine airforce switching over to NATO standards, so they can join later. its a long term effort (+5 years), to rebuild their airforce
Ukraine is disqualified from joining NATO. The west is focused on keeping the military industrial complex going. Not in helping Ukraine win. Wake up!!!
" Ukrainian F-16 training facing delays
NBC News
A spokesperson with Ukraine’s Air Force says the first group of pilots will begin training in Denmark but may ___not be finished before summer 2024____. NBC News’ Ellison Barber rode along on an F-16."
I guess these wunderwaffe will fly by itself.
Delays just apply to new pilots, not retraining of current pilots.
F 16 was shot down easy even by Iraq 😅
Russia will shot them down far more quick !
@@delta_glider4362 Can we stop with this "wunderwaffe" nonsense? The only "wunderwaffe" that has existed in the modern era are nuclear weapons. No one is giving Ukraine those. And if someone claims that one weapon given in limited supply will dramatically alter the course of the war, they're wrong. However: When people say "HIMARS has had a significant impact on Russia's logistic operations", they are saying something that is substantially true. Nevertheless, this statement is commonly met with some glib and vacuous response that includes the word "wunderwaffe".
Rant aside, you'll note the "may not be finished" in the article you quoted. That's not a guaranteed timeline. Based on what I know (I'll admit I'm not an expert, but have some insight here) some pilots will be active before that. The fact is, training is complicated and not all training is created equal. Some pilots have trained for and prepared for missions that other pilots are not at all competent to perform. It's like how a guy with a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience is not the same as a guy with a master's degree and 5 years of experience.
Ukraine getting F-16s within the next few months creates obstacles for Russia 6 months from now. It probably creates worse obstacles for Russia a year from now. And so on. This doesn't mean Russia has no means to overcome the obstacles... they do... but it does make things harder. And generally, the fact that the West is going so far as to supply fighter jets to Ukraine is an indication that other forms of support will continue for the foreseeable future.
Now NATO pilot can fly and carryout strick on Russian as they are doing with HIMARS. Quite clever move by the west, we have seen this in Korean war and Vietnam war..😅
West is so naive in every war they put themselves from Vietnam to Afghanistan and now Ukraine, F16 won't effect anything material
Denmark and the Netherlands are just getting rid of old stock since they are moving to F-35's. These were going to be decommissioned.
Like much or even most of the hardware shipped to Ukraine
Last game changer😂😂😂😂
death star next
Gimme nukes pls
Too Little, Too Late!!?? If F-16 is too little for Ukraine then what they will ask for next...ICBM, Frigates, Cruisers, Nuclear Submarines??
It's never too late to receive 49 top class world leading fighter aircraft
Yes it is, they just going to be added to the pile
@@ethansairsoftandmore5327
What pile ?
If I remember correctly, it's Russia who is begging it's friends for equipment even though it's one of the world's largest military equipment exporter !
@@user-pf8rb6ze7i
You think Russia would be left standing after it fires a nuke ?
Putin would not know what hit him when a B-2 stealth bomber delivers a nuclear weapon through his dachas window.
No Russian would see those planes coming, heck, Russia cannot even defend her territories from drones much less a state of the art stealth bomber !!!!
Top class world fighter aircraft that were shot down even by Iraq easy with soviet launchers 😅
@@kaloyanrosenov2123
I'm sorry, tell us about this so called shoot down !!
Let's see how the Russians deal with them when they come screaming over the battlefield,
WOW
After f16 he will still crying for more weapons
A Pakistan Air Force F-16 was shot down by an Indian Airforce 3rd generation Mig-21 on Feb 2019 , which Pakistan still denies it .. Mig-21 is a single engine,single seater multirole supersonic fighter aircraft introduced into the Soviet military in 1959 .. Most people are of the opinion that a Mig-21 doesn't possess the combat/operational capabilities to take down a F16 which has more advanced characteristics and belongs to completely different generation . However, the Mig-21 bison used by the Indian Airforce is a largely modernised version of the aircraft matching the operation capabilities of the fighting Falcon . So it could have well shot down . And could've done it easily . Besides, the best plane is the one with the best pilot inside .
Fascinating (and refreshing) to see a former US military general officer come out against the likely GOP nominee like that.
"Too little too late"... I guess in astronomical proportions a year and a half can be "too little".
Two more Leopard 2s confirmed dead at Robotyne today...Marder upside down in a ditch, and Stryker blazing from end to end. For day 82, Fortress Zaporizhzhia holds!
Hopefully they help. Aircraft come with training of technicians and pilots that are hard to replace, maintenance contracts and specialized ground support equipment. All a huge financial investment.
Ukr0ps cant even take good care of the leopards 😂 how much more these complex flying coffins? Lmao
It may have drug out the war to not give them the supplies and systems earlier but they'll still need replenishment so better late than never.
Too little too late. A familiar refrain with regard to NATO in European conflicts. It took 9 years for NATO to intervene in the Yugoslav Wars and put a stop to Belgrade's genocidal ambitions.
There can never be "too little" for that greedy beggar. 😂😂😂
Russia will self destruct in good time before capitilation.
well - imagine learning how to use full potential of F-16 in a couple of months - impossible.
They are already training for f16 for months possibly year
It takes a year to graduate from the school and a year of probationary flying with an assigned squadron.
The Ukraine has said pilots have been training for 90 days. It's a cover for using NATO pilots
F16 are donated only not new how about maintenance
@@AdolfHitler-uq4bgnormal pilots should atleast train 2-3 yrs to get really accustomed to the machine, and for the dumb Ukr0ps, they should atleast train 6-10yrs lol
lets not forget, that the pilots from Ukraine are already well trained and experianced pilots. just not in Nato planes. they know how to fly a fighter jet already. It's a re-tooling training, not basic flight training
No competent US airman will fly in Ukraine
Except!!! Very, very interestin'
Will Olaf Scholz decide on Taurus? I am afraid, he can not make a decision, anytime soon - so Germany may provide a lot, but again too late and not cooperating with the European partners.
Hopefully not, but don't worry, Scholz is a spineless coward, he'll send Taurus missiles.
Does anyone seriously believe the F16 will help end the war?
Ofc, people who belive news. And that is most of the people..
This wonder weapon will change everything! Just wait!
Yes, that is why the Russians are so terrified of the F16.
Too little? GFY, DW.
Any rubber bands available 😅
another game changer, bravo
The title sums it up best. Especially considering that primary Russian anti-air systems were litterraly designed from the start to deal with this type of aircraft, not with drones or cruise missiles. Easy targets that will highlight S-400 and S-300 selling proposition. It will be a sad show, something similar to Leopard tanks.
Highly doubtful considering Turkey is a Nato member and own numerous s400 and s300 weaknesses would have been found and shared, besides Israeli airforce already have a working plan on how to attack all S series launches
...it will be a fun show to see
@@bluebird1902 Be a walk in the park for the F16
@@apocalypticweasel9078 Yes. As in a walk in the park, for a woman, at night, with a rapist stalking her.
@@koskok2965 Its quite simple really an works like this
Drones expose the tracking radar of the s300 and s400
Low level pop up attack by F16's using harms locked onto signal exposed by drones
Tracking radars of s300 an s400 destroyed now unable to acquire any targets
High level attack from second wave of F16's using LGB GBU12's to knock out the launchers an personnel
Game over like i said walk in the park for the F16
You Russians should be more careful who you sell hardware to, Turkey NATO member has s300 and s400, NATO members share information and practice against each other.
This donation isn't about the short-term implications. The West cannot supply spare parts to Soviet-era tanks, guns, and planes. We (the West) can only help keep the Ukrainians in the war by supplying them with platforms where we can provide ammunition and spare parts. Somehow I doubt the Russians are willing to sell those to Ukraine.
Another "Game changer"
Who will provide the AWACS?
WW3 right there.
I'm glad finally, knowing this is not Iraq ❤
I am forever confused why western “Experts” always tend to warn about catastrophic result. First the tanks and now the F16s- Russia on the other hand can use any and all of their arsenal-
Russia will not see it as a personal decision
Give Ukraine f16 missiles if F16 isnt going to happen yet.
More than 150 needed to affect the war.
Northern Europe must start building more advanced weapon systems now and in higher quantities. We need the capabilities to push back Russia decisively and swiftly throughout Europe without US backing. The attack on Ukraine was an attack on democratic Europe's borders.The hostile activities of Russian vessels in our Norwegian waters just underlines this. This is not only about Ukraine it is about all bordering nations.
Yes yes yes 0:56
Denmark is also selling some of these F-16s to Argentina. Slava Ukraine?
By the time Ukraine gets the F16s they'll be waving the old white, blue and red.
How far would the USA go to get an enemy out of Texas and off the Mexican border?
The promise is temporary the next American president will cancel this
Even Iraq had no problems shooting down many F 16 😅
Revival of the ghost of kiev featuring F16.
👍👍👍👍👍Bless UkRAINE SUCCESS and much❤❤❤ for UkRaine Heroes❤Glory UKRAINE 🇺🇦 🙌
This is insanity. This war should have been over before it started. Elitists playing call of duty with human life.
For me it's not too late, i hope it will end soon.
It will be game changer like leopard and abrahams tanks.
Americans have modern jet fighters but Russia has ultra modern air defence system. These fighters wil have no chance against russian EW system.