Soviet aircraft will remain: Ihnat shared the concept of the AFU Air Force development

Even when Ukraine receives modern F-16 fighters, it is not excluded that there will still be Soviet airplanes next to them. If the fleet of aircraft is completely renewed (and it will not happen in one moment), there will be no need to get rid of them completely, because even these old airplanes are still effective in striking the occupants.

For example, Soviet airplanes of our Armed Forces successfully launched HARM missiles, JDAM bombs, as well as SCALP and Storm Shadow missiles at enemy targets. This was said by the speaker of the Air Force of the AFU Yuriy Ihnat in an interview with Suspilne (to see the video, cover the page to the end).

According to him, Ukraine needs approximately 128 F-16 fighters to replace old Soviet combat aircraft with them.

60 F-16 fighters would be enough to protect Ukraine's skies from Russian missile and drone attacks right now. They would be stationed at various airfields around the country, the same way Soviet aircraft are now stationed.

"Let us put about two airplanes each on operational airfields in different parts of the country. There's a massive or not massive missile or drone strike going on. Now our fighter can fly around in circles behind. But it can't shoot a drone simply because the Soviet fighter is not built to shoot down a Shahed drone. It doesn't have the right radar, it can't "see" it..... So would those 60 be enough? I think it would be enough for such tasks," Ihnat said.

Denmark has already started to teach the first eight Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets.

As reported by OBOZREVATEL:

- Romania and the Netherlands have agreed to create a base for training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 and the corresponding maintenance of these fighters. The base will be located in one of the training centers on the territory of Romania.

- Reznikov explained the essence of the "fighter coalition" for Ukraine. It was created to push allies who have F-16s to transfer them to our Armed Forces. In addition to F-16s, Ukraine plans to receive three other types of Western multi-role fighters.

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