🇺🇦 F-16 ARRIVES IN UKRAINE!
First delivery of the F-16 fighter jets from NATO has arrived in Ukraine.#F16 #UkraineRussiaWar️️
🎥 Video for Representation: pic.twitter.com/Rog55oK9qv— Beats in Brief (@beatsinbrief) July 31, 2024
Allegedly Ukraines newest air defense system has arrived. pic.twitter.com/GhEwMpvibm
— ayden (@squatsons) July 31, 2024
The photo below is reported to be in the skies over Odessa. I wouldn’t put too much faith in that claim and think it could be farther west, but who knows, maybe they already brought em to Odessa…seems like a risk
Lets see how it all goes
Mainstream sources
apnews.com/article/ukraine-f16-jets-russia-missile-98fab7aa19e093bf8df3de015bc9006a
Bloomberg: The first delivery of the F-16 fighter jets from NATO allies has arrived in Ukraine t.co/8NEslW5Wubt.co/kyriktxkTu
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) July 31, 2024
Russia will destroy US-made F-16 fighter jets if they eventually make it to Ukraine, just as it has with other Western equipment, President Vladimir Putin said
Read more: t.co/fZhhOZ4ytj pic.twitter.com/RFBr7L26Ev
— RT (@RT_com) March 29, 2024
Russia will treat F-16s in Ukraine as nuclear threat – Lavrovt.co/5YsvqVYVWa pic.twitter.com/KVxb2kwShW
— RT (@RT_com) July 13, 2023
The first batch of US-made F-16 fighter jets has arrived in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The number of warplanes is “small,” sources told the outlet on condition of anonymity. Kiev has yet to comment on the reported delivery.
The origin of the aircraft is not yet clear. Last year, a group of NATO states, including Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Sweden, formed the so-called ‘F-16 coalition’. Greece, the US, Bulgaria, and France later joined.
While some countries, including the Netherlands and Denmark, pledged to provide Kiev with 24 and 19 aircraft respectively from their own stocks, others committed to training Ukrainian pilots.
Norway has also recently stated that it would donate six fighter jets to Kiev.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that F-16s, just like the other Western weapons provided to Kiev, will not change the outcome of the conflict. The Russian military will destroy the planes as it has done with other Ukrainian hardware, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier this year.
www.rt.com/russia/601922-f16-jets-ukraine-delivered/
✈️🇺🇦 The publication "Dumskaya" writes that this is the first photo of the F-16 in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/nJmsCfSB7h
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) July 31, 2024
BTW I think the other photos are stock photos basically and this one is the only “in theater” one claimed so far.
Not sure how many were transferred.
Also I would be very curious to hear who the pilots are… I had heard progress was VERY slow going trying to convert Ukrainian pilots to the new platform
h/t SwampCreature
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