May it be so!
Depending on the configuration, price of one Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon varies from $12 million to $35 million.
Then: 10 F-16s lost in one afternoon in confused fray in Ukraine.
Biden: Open the taxpayers’ wallets again.
A nice surreptitious way for China to access F-16 technology, don’tcha think?
I remember an early documentary on the F-16 saying that they were the most dangerous fighters to fly due to the high Gs pulled. The best pilots were said to be short women with high blood pressure.
Sky is Comcast
FU, Comcast — NWO scum
Vietnam 2.0 Way to go guys. If you can F it up once you can get a reach around from the bear and really really F it up this time. 1.0 was nothing.
I hate Nato . The military industrial complex with their partners in the government run media really have the sheep pulling hard for a war with Russia. Let’s just ignore the fact we don’t win wars we just start them to sell weapons with no intention of winning. Iraq, Afghanistan , vietnam etc. etc were wars started based on lies from our government and media and were not in defense of the country. I hope Russia wipes Nato out for the good of humanity and freedom. The deep state wants a nuclear exchange so they can control American and European lives even more. Russians are more free then we are and Putin doesn’t direct the government to punish white Christian’s for being white Christians like all Nato member countries do. If you’re an American soldier you should defend the country and topple our evil government.
Could they? Yes. It is technically possible for it to happen.
Should they? That ‘s a whole ‘nother question.
Proficiency flying and deploying weapons does no happen over night so it will take close to a year before Ukraine pilots are good to go in an F-16.
We have plenty of F-16s sunning themselves in the boneyard but it's the weapons for them that are in short supply.
We have already blown through about 1/3 of stockpile of howitzer shells and anti tank missiles. It will be a long and expensive process to rebuild stocks.
Do we really need to be doing this with our aircraft weapons inventory?
This is monumental stupidity.
There is currently no plausible way Ukraine defeats Russia. There will be a negotiated solution. We could have had a negotiated solution very early on to avoid a lot of death and destruction when it was clear Russia was not doing well. NATO is intentionally torpedoing negations to prolonging the conflict in Ukraine to bleed Russia and probably for Western Pols to steal vast quantities of aid money.
It's time to force both counties to the negotiating table, not the time for escalating the war to top prolong the conflict.
The F16 is extremely easy to learn to fly and land.
It takes a decade, however, to become worth a crap as a fighter pilot in one.
STAY OUTTA UKRANE.
Look.! We have no business in that war today. Both countries involved with bidens and he has given, taken, laundered money and classified docs.. It is plain he only cares for himself.. The nation could fall as long as Joe is fine!
I don’t know why we didn’t dump the thousands of cobra helicopters we have in storage. I get that they are easy to shoot down but in the numbers we have, you can flood the battlefield.
It can’t be that hard to simply put a bullet in Putin’s head. The only honorable goal here should be to stop the fighting. It think if Russia had a way out the world could scale down from the impending danger here.
I don’t think many people realize the danger were in when two sick loons have their fingers in the nuclear triggers.
They are super easy to fly. I saw a movie called Iron Eagle! Just send tape decks, or I guess these days ipods.