A team of Ukrainian pilots for training on the American F-16 fighter jet has been selected and formed.

While the discussions with our Western partners continue, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already selected the best pilots who will be able to quickly master the control of NATO combat aircraft, TSN says. 

American multipurpose fighters of the fourth generation can significantly speed up the victory over Russia and permanently expel the occupier from Ukraine.

"Crimea, occupied territories - of course.

This aircraft has a wide range of weapons that work against ground targets, including cruise missiles and guided aerial bombs, there are very good weapons that all NATO countries have," said the spokesman of the Air Force Command Yuriy Ignat.

A military pilot with many years of experience says that it makes no sense to compare the F-16, which has undergone numerous upgrades and is equipped with modern electronics and high-precision weapons, with Russian planes.

Neither with the MIG-29, nor with the SU-27, and even with its modernized version - the SU-30 - according to all technical characteristics, the Russians lose.

"For example, the MIG-29 aircraft, if compared to it, is armed with air-class missiles only of short, medium range.

The F-16 is armed with short-, medium-, and long-range missiles.

Our main enemy in the air now is the SU-35 aircraft... To counter this aircraft, we need the F-16 aircraft," says Volodymyr Logachov, an aviation representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

Moreover, Ukraine needs F-16s not only for air combat and missile strikes on the enemy on the ground, they will become part of air defense, because this is a common task for them.

"MIG-29, well, it is difficult for it to shoot down Shaheda and cruise missiles today.

This is the main fighter that we have in service today.

The F-16 intercepts much faster, and the F-16 should become that part of air defense and cover those areas that are not covered by our anti-aircraft missile systems.

We cannot completely cover Ukraine with air defense means," adds Ignat. 

At the first stage, the military says, it would be desirable for Ukraine to form at least one squadron - which is about two dozen aircraft.

Given the way military aces are fighting in MiGs today, a quick victory in the sky with F-16 fighter jets is obvious.

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