Posted on 01/01/2024 10:11:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
In a defiant New Year’s address, President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed that Russia would feel the “wrath” of Ukrainian weapons production, including a million new attack drones, and the expected arrival of F-16 fighter jets from the West in the coming year.
Speaking from Kyiv on Sunday evening, Zelensky proclaimed that “Ukraine is alive. Ukraine lives. Ukraine fights” while thanking the efforts of the hundreds of thousands of men fighting on the frontlines and the civilian population for their contributions to the war effort and “holding back the evil that has become even greater.”
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“Contractors.” Sort of like the “contractors” who worked for Air America during the Vietnam War. [My uncle was an Air America pilot]
Who’s going to fly these F-16s?
Maybe Lindsey Graham, and Fauxcohontas.
My thinking exactly. No more than 2 sorties and they will be blotted out of the sky.
Yep. Davydov is living large and in comfort in Switzerland.
Yep. It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot in the box.
Where are the airfields that are capable of handling these planes. The Russians have made it crystal clear that if they’re flown from NATO bases, those bases will be attacked.
The little midget dancing queen makes my skin crawl.
Is it wrong if I am not rooting for the Liberal nation in this conflict?
One thing to say about former Mig pilots flying the 16s.
Muscle memory.
Ever run machinery and get into one that has controls backwards from what you learned on and used to? Well..get into trouble and you’ll go into muscle memory mode. Even if you have run that machine for quite a while. You’ll still go back to what you learned on originally in a panic.
What would be interesting is if:
1. If the pilots and maintenance crew are NATO pilots and maintenance crew (including ‘recently retired pilots’, which was an option offered by the former head of the company formerly known as Blackwater).
2. Whether the F-16s are based in NATO territory, as in, they take off and land from airports outside Ukraine. This would be an interesting one since basing the F-16s outside Ukraine would make them more survivable, but raise some questions on whether that is a - cough cough - escalation.
3. The most interesting one though is if the F-16s are allowed to keep their LINK-16 system, enabling secure and tactically-helpful data links with other NATO assets. If so, this could mean that NATO AWACS operating, say just inside the Polish border, could provide situational awareness of ‘Ukrainian’ F-16s. Maybe even provide better targeting for AMRAAMs.
Any of the three would be quite helpful to Ukraine. Of the three, only 2 would be easily ‘provable’ while 1 and 3 would be difficult to prove by the Russians (unless a live pilot or a mostly intact plane was captured). And even then it would be he said/she said …like the case of German crews being caught in a destroyed Leopard II.
Anyway, interesting days. Let’s see what happens.
The biggest fear though I think Sankara escalation. Eg, Russia performing a false flag attack where alleged Ukrainian soldiers massacre a Russian village. Similar to how ‘Chechen or Dagestani’ terrorists bombed a building and sparked the Second Chechen war.
You make it sound like Russia is worried about the F-16s
But, didn’t you Russian shills say the planes would have no effect?
So which is it?
Forget the Russians. We -- illustrious, brain-powered and trans -- will see the world knuckle under. < s a r c >
Behold! See "our" Ozmandian might and tremble!
Lt. Col. Bree Fram, transsexual Biden administration "leader"
"...revolutionize the way we fight in space we fight in cyber just happens to be in a trans body you should want them all serving alongside me and for your organizations...."
Bree Fram Twit on Twitter
It depends on which Freepers you are referring to Canuck.
The Dancing Queen.
Different weapon system, same result. Just like all the previous silver bullet systems you Team Uke Corruption goons have laughably been crowing about over the last two years. Tell us more about the Abrams, Leopards, Patriots, Storm Shadows, Stingers, MLRS, HIMARS, etc.,etc.,etc. But not worry, the corrupt DC MIC oligarchs you happily stooge for, will still get their profits, regardless.
What thread can go by without the marvelous entertainment from a marvelous entertainer....
President Zelensky and Ukrainian people singing and dancing naked in supermarkets [Music Video]🇺🇦
Game-changing Western wunderwaffe #17
We’re not trying to have a ‘game changer’.
The plan is to keep things even until all evidence and witnesses are destroyed.
It’s not the plane nor the pilot. It’s the weapons systems.
Respond to all the drone attacks going on at this moment with the final elimination of the Kerch Bridge. That is the one target the Russians still have that needs to be destroyed ASAP.
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