How will F16 fighter jets change the war in Ukraine? | DW Analysis 

this is not Iraq /Afghanistan/Libya , this is call mighty Russia . what every NATO give Ukraine they are loss this war .

Just as Leopard tank changed the war.....

These planes, as with the Abrams tanks, are for long term defense. Too little too late is a very misinformed statement. Ukraine needs to ability to deter future aggression, whether they retake the full Donbas or not. Not everything is focused on the short term. Thank god we have military experts who understand this.

Nobody's taking evil Putin seriously now. Thank you to Denmark and to the Netherlands.

I wouldn't say ''Too little too late'', I'd say ''A day late and a dollar short'' but go on 😃

"Too little too late" very German headline. I salute by tipping my helmet!

Ukrainians are planning to take off from parking lots?

America was in Afghanistan for 20 years, we're not going to get tired or bored of supporting Ukraine. They're actually saving us money by taking all our old, outdated equipment, which costs money to store and decommission. Thank you Ukraine! 😅

😀New game-changer F-16 the very last game-changer ? If Weapons from 40+ Countries cannot win against Russia!!! Russia is the number One military super power💥💢

Russia hitting Ukraine. Hit Russia, no escalation. Equal fight

In my own opinion,Ukraine was already defeated.....

We looking for peace.

This will totally change everything! 👍Well, at least for those people responsible for maintaining it, the'll get nice place somewhere in Italy)

Recipe for disaster no runway in Ukraine is long enough for F-16s

Does anyone seriously believe the F16 will help end the war?

Old planes and high maintenance?

Everybody's talking about the silver bullet F16 as they did about the Leopard tanks which resulted in more hype than positive results ...So they expect that the F16 will fly freely over ukraine without being challenged by the Russian airforce? ...why doesn't anybody consider this option...too afraid to face the negative consequences...Thy think the Russians will simply watch!

No competent US airman will fly in Ukraine

Should have been delivered last year!

During the Korean war, the Soviet Union sent advanced fighter jets to North Korea. They were painted with North Korean colors, but were flown by Soviet pilots. That was not seen as some "escalation," so following the Russian sent precedent, fighters are more than fair game to send to Ukraine.

“To little to late” isn’t that what all the important weapons that are given to Ukraine are. Remember leopards, long range rockets. I think the USA and other Nato countries are to cautious and conservative in its policy to approve arms delivery to Ukraine. In the end it will cost more, lives and money, than going in full throttle.

Of course there’s going to be an escalation..that comes with war in order to recapture their lost territories.. how would Germany feel if East Germany was taken over again by the Russians..would west Germans care or fight for their lost territories? We must ask ourselves the same if our home was invaded..will our neighbors help us or be critical in trying to regain our homes back.

This won't have any effect, just like the previous game changer, Leopard II

Guided bombs launched from F-16s are much cheaper than cruise missiles with close to the same impact.

Are they forgetting russia has bombed the drones convention easily recently? Let alone huge hangers of F-16 Maintenance team Logistic Arm depot And the plane itself will be bombed

According to the Dutch MOD website, the Netherlands has currently 24 F16 left. Denmark delivers 19. That makes 43. Zelensky mentioned 42. So I think 1 will go into the military museum. But I think 60 F16 is wrong. We don't have those numbers.

"The goal is to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war." - Julian Assange

After the announcement of advanced hardware, Russia always says it will “escalate” the situation. If that was truly the case, why didn’t they just escalate to the max in the very beginning? Before the arrival of the advanced hardware ☠️

Ahh another game changer. Russia has an answer for everything Nato sends. Lol 😂😂😂

Ukraine army will completely be finished before next year

Nothing can change

Even Iraq had no problems shooting down many F 16 😅

Putin said he will wave the nuke if Ukraine got F16 . Now what ? Putin will slap himself again?

There can never be "too little" for that greedy beggar. 😂😂😂

Sounds like a logistical nightmare. These planes won't change anything. The f-16 needs soo much maintenance and clean runways.

game changer👍

It's unfortunate that ukraine has to to wait all this time for f16's to be delivered because all that does is give time for Russia to get prepared

West is so naive in every war they put themselves from Vietnam to Afghanistan and now Ukraine, F16 won't effect anything material

Too little too late. A familiar refrain with regard to NATO in European conflicts. It took 9 years for NATO to intervene in the Yugoslav Wars and put a stop to Belgrade's genocidal ambitions.

Lute is most astute. I learned a lot from listening to him.

A German news agency saying too little too late? You might want to look at the aid given by each country and remind me who has given far more than the rest. Germany SHOULD be 2nd on that list, seeing how they are the richest European country, but no.

Where will these F16's take off/land?

Let's see The Stinger and Javelin, would a game changer. Then the Baractar 2 would be a game changer. Then the M777 and counter battery radar would be a game changer. Then self propelled howitzers would be a game changer. Then HiMars would be a game changer. Then the lepard 2 and other modern tanks, then the Bradley IFV would be a game changer, then the storm shadow would be a game changer. So now, we have the f/16 fighter, first introduced in 1976. Russia doesn't stand a chance, Russia has already lost. Question, how many times can western media lie and the people of the US and Europe believe those lies? There's been so many game changers no one knows what game we're playing anymore. Ukraine is playing chess, Putin is playing Checkers, that's a game changer.

America 20yrs in Afghanistan. Putin’s going to have to be patient if he’s counting on a waiting game.

flying coffin in ukraine sky

Too Little, Too Late!!?? If F-16 is too little for Ukraine then what they will ask for next...ICBM, Frigates, Cruisers, Nuclear Submarines??

Now NATO pilot can fly and carryout strick on Russian as they are doing with HIMARS. Quite clever move by the west, we have seen this in Korean war and Vietnam war..😅

Those people gave ovations to Zelensky to his good play..... The reality of it..... ukraine is chooking west and pulling it down. The interst rate in US has doubled in last few month. Inflation skyrocketing and government treasure bonds become useless paper. Prices went up big time as never..... Same for EU. Without war ukraine has a hard time to borrow a few billions for it survaival, now west burned hundred of billions in this pointless war which has no goals or strategic target. Few hundreds of ukrainian sldiers got killed and clown presiden who caused of this total disaster and total failure of own country recived ovations! Are all those people insane???

They lost 40,000 men on this offensive. If I was Ukraine I would go after NATO for setting them up like this.

replace aging soviet aircraft’s with 43 year old aircrafts

👍👍👍👍👍Bless UkRAINE SUCCESS and much❤❤❤ for UkRaine Heroes❤Glory UKRAINE 🇺🇦 🙌

I had to check the channel for a second there. For a moment, I thought I was watching a BBC News headline.

Another wonder weapon

Last game changer😂😂😂😂

Victory always comes down to who has the best experience, I mean real life combat warfare, not just 8 month training. That's how Ariel combat works.

Even with f35 kieve can never win Russia. Logical truth.

I hope my government gets its act together and provides the Taurus missiles before the F-16 jets arrive in Ukraine but I doubt it.

give em 80's planes to replace 80's planes. lol

Mr. Putin wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming " escalation!!!".

Freedom and democracy is sadly not a good definition for Ukraine.

WHY IS THE WEST SO WEAK (AND RUSSIA SO STRONG)? THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND WESTERN EDUCATION It is becoming increasingly clear to more and more people in the West that something has gone terribly wrong with the Ukraine project. Predictions and projections didn’t pan out and the West doesn’t seem to know what to do. The Russian economy wasn’t a house of cards as predicted, Russian weapons weren’t inferior as predicted, Russian soldiers and commanders weren’t incompetent as predicted, and Russian technology wasn‘t inferior as predicted. In some respects the Russians even seem to be superior to the West. Their weapons are effective and in many cases outright technologically superior, as clearly demonstrated by their hypersonic missiles, SAM systems and electronic warfare systems. Their economy appears to be surprisingly advanced and diversified and based on real wealth creation rather than financialization and debt like the West’s. Their strategic and tactical thinking also seems to work, while the West‘s clearly doesn‘t. The whole mess is often explained as a result of a miscalculation by the western elites - they underestimated Russia and overestimated the West. The situation, however, is far worse than that. Every day that passes reveals the impotence of the West more and more and the situation is becoming outright humiliating. At this point the rest of the world either shakes their heads or simply laughs at the West and its politicians and diplomats - not to mention its crazed populations. The dysfunction of the West is far deeper than just the situation around the Ukraine project. It’s absolutely everywhere. The West can’t do diplomacy in general, it can’t run its cities or countries except into the ground, its high-tech projects fail almost as a rule, its infrastructure is crumbling, its economies are crumbling, and all public policies seem to have a civilizational suicide as a final goal. The West’s control mechanisms over the rest of the world are also crumbling, including the dollar, sanctions, color revolutions, military interventions and threats. Nothing seems to work and everything the West does seems to make things worse. Any rational person upon hearing a western leader, diplomat or “expert” speak, asks himself this question: “Are they just lying or are they really this incompetent and delusional?” The answer is “both” but the incompetence factor is far greater than most people can imagine.

It's crazy that so few F16 aircraft have been donated. Ukraine needs a couple of hundred aircraft.

DW, you might want to try at least some minuscule amount of moderating in your comment section. This place is overrun with Putin shill bots. Shameful. 🙄

Here we go again " The Game Changer". Remember It's not fighting like Iraq or Afghanistan.

It will only give them problem

Not too late. The precision Ground and Air Strike augmentation in winter with precision modern ISR especially when ground forces actions have slowed down provides for sustenance of attrition and degradation of enemy logistics and air superiority. This also facilitates use of " strategic" arsenal/ munition should the adversary resort to adventurism. A progressively and time critically progressed empowerment.

The leopards changed the flaw of history and so will do the f16.

Finally US and Russia to fight a nuclear war???

It’s definitely not ending the war like a couple jets vs hundreds of battalions of Air Force brigades

One could draw comparison with the Korean War. Russian pilots flew Migs against American pilots during the conflict.

The promise is temporary the next American president will cancel this

...and you guys wonder why Trump will be elected by the people???????

The F-16 deployment will escalate the conflict. We are getting closer to a nuclear war. EU countries will be the first recipient of the nuclear fallout. 😂😂😂😂

By the time Ukraine gets the F16s they'll be waving the old white, blue and red. How far would the USA go to get an enemy out of Texas and off the Mexican border?

Too late? Unlikely. Late? Absolutely, and they'd better train some good numbers of pilots also, not what I've heard. We had 60 some in just our class, and another batch 4 weeks later. They need at least two full-size classes and simulators inside Ukraine.

1st there were ATGM which are advertise as game changer then 2nd Himars ....... failed 3rd Storm shadow .... failed 4th Nato tanks like leopard ... failed Now when every weapon failed to be a game changer west have send their F-16 fighter jets 😄🤭 Who is going to fly these aircrafts Ghost of Kyiv

After f16 he will still crying for more weapons

Sending tanks without air cover was like ordering the tank crews to commit suicide. I understand that it was easier to get the tanks there faster, but we should have committed to the F-16's sooner. It feels like a desperate last gasp.

It's never too late to receive 49 top class world leading fighter aircraft

Denmark and the Netherlands are just getting rid of old stock since they are moving to F-35's. These were going to be decommissioned.

Freedom and Liberty! God Bless Ukraine and NATO! 🇺🇲❤️🇺🇦🇳🇱🇩🇰

Do you think Poutine begins special military operation in Ukraine without thinking about F-16 from American allies?? They will meet the same fate as Patriot Missiles...

If f16 couldn't take on migs and sukhois it will affect American fighter jet market very badly😁

Who will provide the AWACS? WW3 right there.

Two more Leopard 2s confirmed dead at Robotyne today...Marder upside down in a ditch, and Stryker blazing from end to end. For day 82, Fortress Zaporizhzhia holds!

The beginning of the end of Ukraine.

I think zelensky forget forget s400 and 500 😂

Will Olaf Scholz decide on Taurus? I am afraid, he can not make a decision, anytime soon - so Germany may provide a lot, but again too late and not cooperating with the European partners.

Happy to be Dane 🇩🇰🇺🇦SKÅL

😂wtf dw you talking about. These planes suppose to retire 2024. Come on start reporting the truth

Fascinating (and refreshing) to see a former US military general officer come out against the likely GOP nominee like that.

Northern Europe must start building more advanced weapon systems now and in higher quantities. We need the capabilities to push back Russia decisively and swiftly throughout Europe without US backing. The attack on Ukraine was an attack on democratic Europe's borders.The hostile activities of Russian vessels in our Norwegian waters just underlines this. This is not only about Ukraine it is about all bordering nations.

Norway already announced they were joining the F16 coalition!

Except!!! Very, very interestin'

Revival of the ghost of kiev featuring F16.

in this video, it is more surprising that in Denmark there is still a ruZZi ambassador, a country that is headed by an international criminal who steals children, whose soldiers cut off the heads of prisoners of war and bomb houses with air bombs and this "ambassador" is still quoted here

Any rubber bands available 😅

"Too little too late"... I guess in astronomical proportions a year and a half can be "too little".

A Pakistan Air Force F-16 was shot down by an Indian Airforce 3rd generation Mig-21 on Feb 2019 , which Pakistan still denies it .. Mig-21 is a single engine,single seater multirole supersonic fighter aircraft introduced into the Soviet military in 1959 .. Most people are of the opinion that a Mig-21 doesn't possess the combat/operational capabilities to take down a F16 which has more advanced characteristics and belongs to completely different generation . However, the Mig-21 bison used by the Indian Airforce is a largely modernised version of the aircraft matching the operation capabilities of the fighting Falcon . So it could have well shot down . And could've done it easily . Besides, the best plane is the one with the best pilot inside .

sean penn said one squadron of F-16s will beat Russia. The actor has watched too many Hollywood movies :)