Poland Supplies MiG29s to Ukraine

Polish Foreign Ministry ^ | 03/08/2022 | Polish Foreign Ministry

[pierrem15]

The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Goverment, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America.

At the same time, Poland requests the United States to provide us with used aircraft with corresponding operational capabilities. Poland is ready to immediately establish the conditions of purchase of the planes.

The Polish Government also requests other NATO Allies – owners of MIG-29 jets – to act in the same vein.

[Chode]

are these converted to use NATO ordnance?

[immadashell]

I don’t recall that Russia destroyed the Ukrainian Air Force on day one (which they should have done if they wanted to walk over them).

[rfp1234]

Russia is not going to start a shooting war with NATO when it is having enough trouble just with Ukraine.

Correct, but Putin may now feel time pressure to escalate with bunker-busters and other non-nukes against Ukraine before they can benefit from the MiGs.

[Ouderkirk]

You’re a pretty perceptive guy, what’s your prediction for how this plays out?

[G Larry]

"...all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America."

Not the same as providing them to Ukraine.

Does anybody expect Biden to allow Ukraine pilots to fly these out of Poland?

Don't tell me what he says, show me what he does.

[Wuli]

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was the beginning of WWIII, not any responses to Putin’s invasion.

[Solson]

One billion dead according to NATO-Russia wargames. We've just inserted ourselves in the worst possible way for a non-strategic country that should have remained neutral.

Putin has stated they will use nukes to protect their country.

[Wuli]

Poland is part of NATO.

[Ikemeister]

Poland is part of NATO

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

WTF????!!!!

Oh God. Blinken desperately wants to start WWIII. This is insane!!!

[Wuli]

“In other words, giving them to the US, not Ukraine. They are leaving that to us. This would be an act of war on our part,”

Putin’s actions was not an act of war???

[DesertRhino]

“This gives the Poles a chance to stay out of nuclear exchange between Russia and US.”

Yeah, if it comes to a nuke exchange, they’ll politely skip over Poland because they sent the planes to Ramstein first.

[JoSixChip]

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was the beginning of WWIII, not any responses to Putin’s invasion.

Oh for Gods sake, we goaded Putin to go into Ukraine. Good God, the hoe was there 3 days before Russia went in bragging that Ukraine was joining NATO. Would we allow such a thing to happen in Mexico or Cuba? You idiots are going to get millions, maybe billions killed.

[Ikemeister]

Poland has saved the West more than once..1683, 1920...2022?

[alternatives?]

You are correct. Poland is giving them to the US. I wonder who is responsible for the title?

[pghbjugop]

Poland has flown f16s for years, so they get rid of the old junk to Ukraine and get more of what they already have. Ukraine has all Russian equipment. If Ukraine didn’t have a panny waste balless pussy in Zelensky, they would have been buying western military since the last time Russia invaded in 2014, but no the lazy jackass just pushed to be a member of tits on a bull NATO and provoke Russia even further.

[SgtHooper]

This is a nothing burger! “At the disposal of the US?!” Are they daft!? They could drive them into Uker on the roads, instead of flying them over to GDR.

[JoSixChip]

Putin’s actions was not an act of war???

Not against us. Russia did it believing they were protecting their homeland. We would have done the same thing even sooner.

[Yo-Yo]

Domestic and US pressure made this inevitable. Wonder what deal the Poles got.

F-16s to replace their MiG-29s, that's the deal. (Poland already operates the F-16.)

[SgtHooper]

Hey! Let’s get a Freeper MIG!