Denne leveringen skjer i regi av EU og ikke NATO. Flyene er tidligere levert Polen fra Tyskland som tok dem over da Øst Tyskland ble integrert med Vest.
Sjekk video her: https://tinyurl.com/22ukhnhd
Sjekk USAF KC-135 på jobb nær Warzawa her: https://tinyurl.com/299zrca7 Denne jobben ble tatt over av et NATO A330-243 MRTT tankfly: https://tinyurl.com/yc53apht
DEFENSE ONE
Can Ukraine Really Use
Donated Fighter Jets? That Depends
After EU says it will send some aircraft to Ukraine, a retired U.S. fighter chief explains how that might work.
GLOBAL BUSINESS EDITOR
FEBRUARY
27, 2022 09:18 PM ET
Perhaps the most eye-popping of today’s pledges to ship weapons to the Ukrainian military
was the European Union’s announcement that it would soon send fighter jets. Would Ukrainian pilots
really be able to jump in a donated jet and fly into combat?
Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle says sure, if it’s a type
they already know how to fly.
“It really would not be a big step, going from a
Ukrainian MiG-29 to a Polish MiG-29,” said Carlisle, a
retired general who oversaw U.S. Air Force fighter jets as head of Air Combat
Command.
The EU official who made Sunday’s announcement
said he understands that the Ukrainian Air Force has no time to get up to speed
on unfamiliar aircraft.
“They need the kind of fighters…that the Ukrainian
force is able to operate,” EU policy chief Josep Borrell said. “We know what kind of planes, and some member
states have these kinds of planes.” Borrell did not say what kinds those were.
But according to the Flight International 2022
World Air Forces database, the Ukrainian air force flies Soviet-made MiG-29s and three types of
Sukhoi jets. Three NATO nations, Poland, Slovakia, and Bulgaria, also fly the
MiG-29, a twin-engine fighter jet developed in the 1970s. Bulgaria also flies
the Su-25, a close-air support jet also flown by Ukraine.
Since Ukraine already flies the MiG-29, its Air
Force pilots could immediately fly MiG-29s flown by other countries without any
major training, Carlisle said. Pilots typically must go through a training
course before climbing into the cockpit of a new type of jet.
“It's not like driving a Chevy and then driving a
Dodge,” Carlisle said. It takes a bit to transition airplanes between makers,
as well as within makers, if it's a different type of airplane.”
In the late 1980s, Carlise, who is now the CEO of
the National Defense Industrial Association, flew MiG fighters as part of a
U.S. Air Force squadron that tested Soviet warplanes secretly acquired by the
U.S. government.
The F-16, to name another plane popular with NATO
militaries, would not be of immediate use. Even though there are thousands of
U.S. made F-16s flying in the United States and around the world, it would take
time to familiarize the Ukrainans with American equipment.
“The U.S. builds airplanes significantly different
than the Russians do,” Carlisle said. “Going to a U.S. fighter is a big step.”
Ukrainian pilots would also have to train to fly
the planes in advance, which would take time, something that Ukraine doesn’t
have as Russian forces advance toward Kyiv.
“They would have to get checked out in the
airplane and understand, you know, all the operating limits, all the weapons
systems, [and] how to handle the airplane,” Carlisle said. That's a pretty big
step—that can't be done kind of a drop of a hat type thing.”
Also, the U.S. State Department would need to
approve the transfer of any F-16s flown by NATO allies to Ukraine.
But Carlisle suggested that there were plenty of
other U.S. weapons that could help Ukraine prevent Russian jets and helicopters
from flying around uncontested.
“Whatever we could give up to counter [Russia’s]
air superiority would be a huge advantage,” he said.
Electric jammers and anti-tank weapons would also
help the Ukrainians, Carlisle said.
“Whatever you can do to interrupt their
information or degrade their electronic capability that can be advantaged.
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