A number of NATO countries have signed an agreement on the training of pilots.
Erja Tuomaala,
Yrjö Kokkonen
Ukrainian pilots have started receiving training to fly the F-16 fighter. The Secretary General of NATO told about it Jens Stoltenberg yesterday, when arriving at the organization’s defense ministerial meeting in Brussels.
A number of NATO countries have signed an agreement on the training of pilots. However, there was no information about the start of training in practice before this.
– The fact that the training has started gives us the opportunity to hand over the planes, after which the pilots can start flying them, Stoltenberg said, for example, The of the Guardian and Ukrainians Ukrinform news site by.
Stoltenberg did not say in which country the training will take place.
Many military experts have estimated that the weakness of the air force is the most threatening aspect of the Ukrainian counterattack. Getting the F-16s into combat will take months anyway. In the past, Ukrainian pilots have mostly flown with Russian-standard equipment.
Fourth generation American fighters
The United States has made the use of destroyers a condition that Ukraine uses the ships only to defend its own territory, not to attack Russia. The aim is to avoid the expansion of the war.
In addition to fighters, the United States, Great Britain, Holland and Denmark, among others, are sending air defense equipment to Ukraine. The delivery includes, among other things, missiles.
In May, Britain sent long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine.