With eight 40 year old F-16s half or more of them will be redlined most of the time. Even with the best maintenance available that would be the case.
They are talking 60-100 F-16's of European and Amercan origin.
That's what they want. So far eight have been committed, maybe, from a US Air National Guard unit.. Nobody else has committed to giving them any at this time. None of the European NATO countries that have been mentioned as possibilities (because they've ordered F-35 Raptors to replace them) are going to give up any F-16s until their F-35s arrive.
Which isn't for one to five years in most cases.
Once again, more propaganda, more lies, more deception from the media and from Ukraine's government, desperately trying to boost the USA citizenry's waning support for this war.
Ukraine requested 200 of them. I'm sure Nato and the US can scrape up 60 16's pretty easily.
