[TokarevM57]

....was an aircraft maintainer for many years on the Block 30 F-16 C and D models...with the ultra-reliable General Electric F110 engine....training pilots is just a small part of this proposed scenario...it takes a lot of training for the maintainer community to keep these jets flying... nothing seems to be said about how the maintainers are going to be trained, e.g., this aircraft is full of sophisticated avionics and subsystems.....

[MNDude]

They announce every planned move to the world. It’s no wonder they never win.

[KTM rider]

yes sir

none of this makes sense

it is basically the US/CIA vs Russia

and Russia is cut off from the internet and connot tell its propaganda side of the story about why they went back into areas of Ukraine, all we can get is the CIA/NATO version about how Russia is an evil empire trying to take over the world and how we have to stop the spread of communism

[BikerJoe]

e.g., this aircraft is full of sophisticated avionics and subsystems.....

Yeah, but WHO are the maintainers going to be?

At McDonnell-Douglas, we heard a story about when the Saudis were first sold F-15s. The manuals were written at a 9th grade level. The Saudis asked for the manuals to be written at a 6th grade level. Our people basically told them "They're friggin' F-15s! Find some smart people to work on them!"