Pooty is failing to whittle down the rest of the Ukies’ MIG’s at a high rate, so if the West actually supplied a decent number of F-16’s, some ought to be around for a while.
The US government is continuing to eviscerate our military, started by Bill Clinton.
I remember seeing a comment somewhere that an F-16 with a full weapons payload requires an 8000 foot runway.
If these planes are deployed to airfields inside Ukraine, the Russians will bomb the airstrip.
That raises the question is NATO going to launch these planes from NATO territory?
Very dangerous game of chicken being played here.
Unfortunately, Putin isn’t wrong here. Eventually we are going to be dragged into this quagmire and it is going to be devastating.
The Russians took out the newly constructed or upgraded F-16 compatible airbase in Ukraine Sunday night or Monday. Considering the fact that the Ukes get a 10 or 15 second heads up warning before impact of a Zircon hypersonic, I would have thought the Russians would have waited until the F-16s had arrived to take out jets and base at the same time.
Nowhere in Ukraine is out of their range. That is why the F-16s will operate out of Poland, just across the border from the destroyed air base, well within range of the Zircons. This will be the penultimate escalation on NATO’s part.
Red lines if you cross:
A̶n̶y̶ ̶a̶i̶d̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶
̶A̶n̶t̶i̶ ̶t̶a̶n̶k̶ ̶w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶
A̶m̶m̶o̶
A̶t̶t̶a̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶r̶i̶m̶e̶a̶
-P̶a̶t̶r̶i̶o̶t̶s̶ ̶
T̶a̶n̶k̶s̶
-A̶T̶A̶C̶M̶S̶
S̶t̶o̶r̶m̶ ̶s̶h̶a̶d̶o̶w̶
F16
Every time Ukraine received new US weapons, Moscow issued threats and warnings. For two years, they have failed to act on them.
Article 5 is one hell of a deterrent.
Old Putin sounding more and more like a RAT American politician.
Is this even debatable?