Russia Crawls Forward as F-16s Head to Ukraine 

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Whats the name of the music in the background❤

Besides, we don't need the cash from the sale, our political class would rather have donated it to Ukraine.

I'm not a 100% sure but it's in my head it had something to do with keeping the Argentines from purchasing Chinese aircraft

@@stirfrywok2927 agreed. This was totally to block Chinese influence

In return it seems Milei is sending Argentinian jets to Ukraine

You are under the assumption that the US wants Ukraine to have a clear cut victory… this bloody quagmire is to their benefit. The longer the Russians are tied up in this side show the less they can support Iran or China. Also, the more damage done to Ukraine the better, who is gonna come in and rebuild Ukraine after the war?

Define bot.

or useful idiots but that doesnt matter. Calling them bots is a compliment to their intelligence.

That's just a confirmation - they are desperate

​@@niluscvp damn that burn was more heartless than the bots themselves

Seriously... I've tried to leave the same pro-Ukraine comment 5x times now. Someone has a heavy delete finger.

The f16’s won’t last 6 months before being shot down

Any combat aircraft will spend more time undergoing maintenance than flying mission sorties. If anything, you want more aircraft than pilots because up to one third of them will be out of action at any given time. Some will be destroyed on the ground, others will encounter problems and be scavenged. It's the pilots that matter, not the airframes. There are thousands of those, and the US needs to step up.

@@wafflesaurus_supreme it’s a very common practice to have more pilots than aircraft.

​@@wafflesaurus_supremeThat mostly applies for later gen aircraft like the F15, F111,F14,F22, etc. This is the F16 for crying out loud, its main competitor was the F20 tigershark. It's main pros were cheapness, upgradability, and lower maintenance. It's meant to be cheap enough to procure, operate, and maintain compared to its peers. It'll spend more time in the sky than a Mig35.

Seek help

​@@shueyk2320 cope and mald

@@shueyk2320 grow up

hilarious :)))

@@gamgamgamgam4061ironic

It is not so easy as you think so, pilot trainings take a lot of time and if US actually want to delay them they will keep doing that.

Who would fly them? Who would support them on the ground?

@@PatRiarchy-qw6cp The French and the Swedes, of course! The point is that those countries will promptly support the effort, unlike our country.

​@@terryknight7492You mean the country that has given by far the most military aid? You mean the country that would foot most of the money and soldiers of war actually broke out? The IS had given more aid than any other county and all we hear are constant complaints. Without calling Ukraine out for not following NATO's advice on how to perform the offensive last summer that wasted our money and gained no ground.

​@@terryknight7492I think people forget we don't actually have to do anything we are safe a whole ocean away l, the fact that we are should be appreciated.

Probably wanted to make sure they could hang tough. Plus of course the longer this lasts the better off for everyone else, because it bleeds Russia. Of course Ukraine also gets bled as well. The Eastern hemisphere is screwed for a long time. Communist China, Islamists, Africans and aging Europeans and almost no natural resources other than their brains. All vying for the natural resources sitting under low IQs and religious radicals. Bad news all around. And also of course a madman in Russia who wants to return to the 20th century rebuilding it's Empire.

Everything going as planned

We already government Ukraine 200+billion 😂

​@@themouthofsauron6926untrue my friend.

​@themouthofsauron6926 Ukrainian MP says the Administration is deliberately withholding Ukrainian pilot training.

hes obviously catering to them

@@havencat9337right, and it’s not because the narrator is Polish, and his native language is very similar to Ukrainian. Sure, it’s because he’s catering to them. Get a grip lmfao.

​@@havencat9337 mimimimimi

And US will abandon the shotdowned pilot thats captured?

​@@dax354able I can't think of any situation where an F-16 would be flying over Russian held territory. Its weapons systems have more than enough range to nullify that risk.

@@ToxapeTV what i can think is maybe if F16 fying close air support sortie near the frontline. If they got shotdown they may end up crash behind ruski line

​@@dax354able I don't think CAS has a place in a war like this, at least until there is undeniable air superiority. Even the russians who have enjoyed what I'll call an "air advantage" so far, now only do CAS sorties where they can launch glide bombs and cruise missiles from within russian borders. Why spend thousands of dollars running and risking an F16 for a CAS sortie when a drone can do the same thing for pennies on the dollar. There's a reason we haven't seen any su25 footage for a while now. The real strength of the F16 in Ukraine will come from its long-range stand-off munitions in SEAD (AGM-88 HARM) and removing the air advantage that Russia currently holds in the conflict.

@@dax354able In the initial phase, there are plenty of missions against drones or cruise missiles and against planes launching glide bombs that can be done by novel pilots. The closed air support sorties can be handled by Ukrainian born pilots. In any case, being shot down often results in death even after capture.

Exactly my point, his analysis has always been optimistic in favor of Ukraine, while trying to seem objective a times. I just cant see Ukraine winning while being entirely dependent on western aid.

I think you mean missiles, no bombers can operate over Ukraine without being shot down.

Perharps its not ready BECAUSE the US is slow rolling the process.

​@@jabloko992It's never enough the US has given by far more military aid than any country and all the world does is complain.

Never think the U.S. is involved because they give a shit about Ukraine or its people . This is a geopolitical game

yeah . I would think the Mirage would just be hard to learn as any western air craft.

@@gerardigoe9765 The Mirage might actually be harder to learn for a pilot as it is a delta wing airplane. People don't actually realize but this poses an additional hurdle. It is not only the difference in cockpit layout between west and east designs but also different aerodynamics. And the Mirage is not helped as much as a Grippen or a Typhoon, with modern computer controls. Not something impossible, but i bet ukrainian pilots will have to start with the basics of flight.

France won't be training any pilots with Macron a lame duck President

Another PR gag ... but Macron got hit with harsh reality.

If Mirage planes with trained Ukrainian pilots really arrive by the end of this year, then the pilot training must have started already a year ago...

Shame he is not reporting the truth that Ukraine is FINISHED

@@jacobjorgenson9285 🃏

and that's why no country uses an air force anymore . . .

But so does every other plane. Mig-29 being the most demanding on maintenance

@@jirislavicek9954good thing Russia has 1000’s of them

@@jacobjorgenson9285 1000's? Nope... They have 1230 combat aircraft, not all are in a state of readiness either. So they have about 1000 or so, and 900 fighters on paper, but who know how many on any given day. All of their fighters are 30+ year old designs of the Flanker and Fulcrum series, new production is very slow and not keeping up with losses.

​@@jacobjorgenson9285they have 253 per their own numbers what are you smoking. Russia barely even has over 1000 combat aircraft in inventory with around 60% operational at any given time.

Please educate me, arent F16s pretty old tech aircraft to face the Russian Sukhois today?

​@@ecoideazventures6417I correct you. F16s are Upgrade with every batch and optemised. Russias airforce consists mostly of old designes aswell. The Sukhoi 57 basicly doesnt exist

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Yanks is crazy, we don’t need to give them F-16s you know…

US is not actually giving Ukraine any F-16, they just started allowing others to give them these.

Rather if only they had started training the crews at the start, planes might understandably lag behind a bit(6m to a y)...

@@aliancemd the break through would be F16s directly from the US Airforce, which they are retiring for F15s or F35s.

Biden was sleeping…😂

the planes will be kept on NATO territory and only in Ukraine for temporary missions. its more of lend lease rather than true Ukrainian ownership of them

Very good point, raising awareness of Ukraine's problem isnt being a russian bot, its about addressing issues so they can be corrected, and lets face it Ukraine is a bit too corrupt, ofc not as insanely corrupt as russia is, but it is an issue. Still, Ukraine shall prevail. Slava Ukraini!

Ukrainian corruption is now mainly an opportunity to buy off conscription to the front. Or to buy the opportunity to travel abroad. Since the borders are closed. As for Western weapons, this is closely monitored, since too much depends on it.

@@SeArCh4DrEaMz Ukraine is disproportionately more corrupt and underdeveloped compared to Russia. This explains why, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, millions of Ukrainians went to Russia to work, and after the start of the war, it was Russia that accepted the largest number of Ukrainian refugees. Despite the most severe sanctions in world history, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has more than doubled its forecast for Russian GDP growth in 2024, from 1% to 2.5%. And according to the World Bank, the Russian economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) has become the fourth in the world. According to this indicator, Russia took fourth position with a share of 3.8% of world GDP, ahead of all European countries, including Germany ($5.2 trillion, its share is 3.4% of world GDP) and France ($3.6 trillion, 2.4%), as well as Japan ($5.6 trillion, 3.7%). Ukraine, on the contrary, even with the support of the entire “civilized West” continues to remain the poorest and most underdeveloped country in Europe. No matter how much economic aid you send to thieving Ukrainian officials, it will still not be enough! their diplomats will continue to insult your countries through inaction. It’s time to recognize that Ukraine and corruption are synonymous words.

@@SeArCh4DrEaMz This Ukrainian newspaper is preparing to take care of your burial in Ukraine. By supporting the green regime you only win the war and bring prosperity to millions of people. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oQ8GoRrsf5Y.html

@@SeArCh4DrEaMz Ukraine has already lost, this poor sub-state is demographically dead. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MLcZ8OKI-r4.html

real, so many delusional people

If they get there.

My dad used to live there I was wondering why he pronounced it like that

more like too sawn

No, it’s to sorn

Its ackshuly Qeeef

Yeah. Russia is a beautiful country plagued by corrosive dictators and ideologies for well over a hundred years now. Russia and the west used to be good friends. Citizens on both sides hope that can be the case again one day

@@Fusion_4000 Not so much friends as they were blood relations.

Where are the Abrahams? Where are the switch blade drones

​@@jacobjorgenson9285switch blades are still getting used, the problem is that Ukraine received them in the low hundreds meanwhile they have been using FPV drones to the tune of over 10,000 a month

​@@jacobjorgenson9285bot spotted LOL

Well it can sling rockets and bombs so it's not useless at least

Probably stock music or something cheap, he used it all the time

​@@renaatsenechalill check it out.

What do you mean?

Switzerland has some.

Ukraine is losing like always

He wasn’t wrong, they’ve been starting to withdraw from Kharkiv now.

yea...lots of wishfull thinking

​@@nobodyherepal3292which world are living in? Two new fronts have been initiated by the Russians according to Ukrainians.

not instantly

@@nobodyherepal3292and they are advancing everywhere else

Better than the Iron Dome though.

@@Samuel-hd3cp I don't think so

​@@SimpleGeopolitics24i doubt your opinion matters on the battlefield

_Russia is now one twentieth of one percent larger than it was in 2022, and all it cost them is half a million lives, and the respect of most of the world._ 😨 ⚒ - j q t -

Game changer is an awful buzzword but the full integration of AIM-120, Meteor and AGM-88HARM will have an impact on the battlefield by denying Russia it's air assets such as glide bombs being able to be freely deployed without return threats

Well then why hasn't Russia achieved air superiority over Ukraine yet with those 1,000 fighters?

Because Ukraine inherited Soviet air defence and thus has some of Europe's best air defence. Same way Ukraine cannot achieve air superiority. ​@@dominuslogik484

Its still there... They started in Feb 2022 with 120, they now have 80 and will receive F16's. They have enough Patriots/S-300's, etc. to work with their fighters to ensure that any Russian aircraft are at risk and the skies remain contested.

Attrition and lack of spare parts. Russia has lost over 100 jets over Ukraine at this point the difference is quite clearly that Russia has a much much much larger air force.

@@dominuslogik484 True... Russia also has a lot more going on than just Ukraine. They still patrol their entire border, have forces in Syria, and need to maintain strategic forces as a deterrent. They have a larger force and a much larger demand on it. What they have available for Ukraine is only a fraction and it isn't enough to do the job, at least not Western style (air dominance).

In this case, they've should pay gov debt by itself (Russia had took soviet era debts of all ex-soviet republics in change on nuclear weapons). In addition,service cost for such type of weapons is insanely large, so Ukraine barely could support it in good conditions

This whole war is this to prove promises is being kept

​@@ZlolupKOpro ukrianian crowd can't comprehend anything. Once they get caught by there hypocritical statements they will call anyone bots or orcs. For them its more about name calling and insults rather than being intellectual and factual.

The answer is not that simple. A) it is expensive to maintain a nuclear arsenal and Ukraine did not have the funds to do so. B) the launch codes were in moscow so they would need a new launch vehicle to do so. Also a creation of such a system would be quite expensive. Looking at it from todays perspective that would have been a worthy investment, but at that point no one thought a war with russia was aproaching.

@@rewanasUkraine was able to take control of the missiles and infrastructure over time, I believe it was more the international pressure that made it undesirable to keep the arsenal.

I think Russia needs a visit with the B2 Spirit personally 😊😊

@@KenC56mm B-21

@@kaianttila1619 That’s undoubtedly a big dilemma, should they spend more time training or rush it? One is a gamble that may save lives but might not work and be a disaster.

You'll be hearing it for another year. Or 2

Psssh it will all be nato pilots pretending to be Ukrainians flying them. You cant teach a person to be an effective fighter pilot on an advanced plane theyve never flown before in mere months.

Nonsense! Russia will do away with the f16’s like they did all the other western “ wonder game changing weapons” slowly, methodically, effectively

​@@rogerc6533win-win situation eitherway

Do you really think your domestic issues are more important than global stability? Hope not. Besides, most of what is being sent is old weaponry. You either use it or decommission it. Ukraine is decommissioning it for you.

I think there’s sufficient of English translators in Poland 😂

The thing is, hired guns are not necessarily a good thing for UA, they come with a lot of caveats and may prove harder to control than expected. Also, this was visible early on with the foreign "legions". Whether it would be different now is unclear

im pretty sure the US recently has started considering getting mercs on ukrainian soil

Why not? The orks provided pilots during both the Korean and Vietnamese wars - what goes around comes around.

Off you pop then Gordon.

America uses the whole world as a labor force. So what?

I didn't know that.

U.S. fighting directly in Ukraine would mean ww3

It's better than the SU-27 and the SU-35 is not really any better since it's the AWACS and missiles that matter.

​@@dominuslogik484😆🤡

@@evilleader1991 tell me you know nothing about air combat without telling me that you know nothing about air combat.

@@dominuslogik484 bro you are just a waste of time

@@evilleader1991 unironically no u

They won't volunteer to die for Ukraine

They would have to be first retired, and secondly willing to volunteer. An unlikely conbination. Old people are more risk averse, and tend to have families etc.

No doubt they'll have at least some foreign volunteers for that

Few want to come up against the world’s best air defence system…..

@@jacobjorgenson9285 Russia doesn't have Patriot, they are stuck with demonstrably inferior air defence systems.

Почему?

@@motomaron1199 Не знаю, спроси у них.

War crimes, enforced neutrality, neutrality by choice and neutrality by law in that order.

@@dominuslogik484 didn’t Sweden and Finland have the same enforced neutrality before joining?

@@michaelrichardson428 Sweden was neutral by choice and Finland was only neutral because they wanted to avoid being invaded by the Soviet Union. With the current state of affairs they were more likely to get into a conflict with Russia by not being a part of NATO. Switzerland has neutrality in their founding documents and Ireland chose the same path during WW2. Sweden basically just refused to pick sides until now

None of them need protection from Russia, there's no point to be part of NATO.

_Russia is now one twentieth of one percent larger than it was in 2022, and all it cost them is half a million lives, and the respect of most of the world._ 😨 ⚒ - j q t -

@@quill444 Европа и США не большая часть мира, а меньшая. Однако, если ты так против войны, то будь добр осуди бомбардировки Югославии, Ливии, вторжение в Ирак, вторжение в Афганистан, бомбардировки Ливии.