“but there sure was a lot made over them. “
Which is why you should look up information for yourself.
The F-16s were supposed to relieve the Patriot missile shortage in opposing Russian saturation attacks. They did help there. The Mirage 2000’s were an emergency measure for when the US turned off the F16 jammers.
I did look it up for myself. It doesn’t change all the fuss made over them in the media and by politicians. Graham was giddy over them.
After they lost their best pilot in that crash right after receiving the very first F-16s, we never heard much about them again. Graham was begging for retired NATO pilots to come fly them, never heard whether there were any takers.
There was this one video they touted about six or eight weeks ago of an F-16 flying along over western Ukraine on a nice day, just flying along. I guess to prove there was someone who could fly it. Just fly it along in a nice straight line.