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Re:Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:50PM (#30605699)
The US has hundreds of F-16s mothballed in Arizona. I'd expect they're about to be busy reactivating a few dozen in the next couple of weeks.
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Re:Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine by nicholasbraker on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:48AM (#30611942)
Poland uses Block 52 F-16's which aren't mothballed at AMARC (yet) Subtypes and blocks differ significantly including logistic pipelines, training etc. So simply grabbing a few from Davis-Monthan won't do the trick.
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Re:Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:51PM (#30605725)
The question is if they can be given, all F-16 sold by the US were export models, not domestic.
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Re:Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:52PM (#30605751)
It's been done before. https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/bulgaria-to-r...
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