26.01.2023, 10:22
Zitat:Netherlands offers to pay for Leopard 2 tanks and give F-16AM/BM fighters to Ukrainehttps://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_...raine.html
According to NL Times, the Dutch government will look into supplying some of its 68 F-16A/B MLU fighter jets (it originally had 213 aircraft) to Ukraine if the Kyiv government asks for it. [...]
All operational F-16A/Bs operated by the Netherlands Air Force (KLu, Koninklijke Luchtmacht) went through the Mid-Life Update (MLU) by 2003. A Multinational Operational Test and Evaluation Center for the F-16A/B Mid-Life Update was established at Leeuwarden air base in 1997. As part of continuing defense cuts, the number of KLu F-16s to undergo MLU was reduced from 170 to 138 in mid-1993. After more defense budget cuts, the current fleet consists of 68 F-16AM/BM operational aircraft.
F-16 für die Ukraine? Habe ich da irgendwas verpasst? Vor allem, wer soll denn die Dinger fliegen? Alleine die Ausbildung dürfte deutlich länger dauern als die einer Panzerbesatzung, von Logistikthemen und Wartung mal ganz zu schweigen. Und auch wenn die Russen recht ungenau durch die Gegend schießen, einen Flugplatz würden sie wohl treffen...
Schneemann