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Addendum about F-16 and F-35.

Fourth Generation F-16:

F-16s are considered vacuum cleaners by military experts. The problem for Kiev is that they don't have airfields that are FLAT enough for F-16s. Even when you have flat airfields they have to be clean enough to prevent F-16 from sucking up dead birds and other debris !!

How long will it take Ukraine to upgrade their airfields for F-16s?

Can they upgrade these airfields without detection by the Russian IRS (Intelligence Reconnaissance Strike) group?

Can they fight off the new Russian R-37M air to air hypersonic missiles launched from Su-35/Su-57 & MIG-29?

Fifth Generation F-35:

Please don't dream about having this junk in combat. You'd better buy an F-15 instead.

F-35s have been flying for 8+ years but have NEVER reached the FOC (full operational capability) because they're plagued with hundreds of software bugs that CANNOT be fixed (Lockheed). A lot of hardware issues and the GAO last week reported that the DOD couldn't account for 1 million spare parts.

South Korea bought this junk and at all time, only 1 in 49 is ready to fly. After each flight you need at least 11-24 hours of maintenance.

How in the hell could Ukraine ever use such a junk in the war zone?

I forgot to mention that F-35 also requires new airfields because it's a BIG bird that cannot fly from tiny runways!

Wait! F-35 is sold to NATO vassals as "stealthy". They're not. Even Hamas in Gaza was able to lock on an Israeli F-35 in 2021 but didn't have long range missiles to take it down.

Russia is just laughing at the idea of sending F-35 to Ukraine.

You know why?

Because as they did with the Patriot battalion sent by the US last month, the S-350 and S-400 will obliterate the F-35s and Lockheed will lose customers en masse!

No sane person in the world believes in the US Patriot air defence systems (NATO defence backbone!) anymore after their defeat in Saudi Arabia by the Houthis's stone age missiles and in Ukraine by the Russian hypersonic Khinzals.

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Bill D's avatar

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/

According to Gorbachev, no promises were give to not expand NATO eastward.

The U.S. did make a deal in 1994 with Ukraine, known as the Budapest Agreement. Ukraine actually had the third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile. This was because the newly-founded Ukraine ended up with the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons in their territory after the Soviet Union collapsed.

This agreement meant that Ukraine would destroy the weapons and the U.S., United Kingdom (U.K.), and Russia would guarantee Ukraine staying secure.

I’m suspect Ukraine regrets that decision now.

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