Only six F-16s out of about 45 fighter jets can be delivered by the time the pilots return to Ukraine

11.03.2024, 13:22 apostrophe.ua

Twelve Ukrainian pilots will be ready for combat missions this summer, but only six F-16s will be delivered by then.

This was reported by the New York Times.

The publication notes that pilot training on modern aircraft has proceeded at "lightning speed," but in general, the training process is moving more slowly than Ukraine and its allies had hoped.

The outlet quotes Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen as saying that "Ukraine’s pilots were already flying over Danish airspace'".

Twelve Ukrainian pilots will be ready to fly F-16s in the summer of 2024 after training in Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States, but by the time the pilots return to Ukraine, only six F-16s out of the 45 fighters, promised by European allies may have been delivered.

The New York Times says that delivery and preparation turned out to be a "difficult task."

Earlier, we wrote that the Czech Republic found 800,000 shells for Ukraine.