The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, Kaisa Ollongren, announced the timing of the transfer of the first F-16 fighters to Ukraine

Despite repeated requests and even demands, Ukraine will not receive F-16 fighter jets from the Netherlands this year. As stated by the Kingdom's Minister of Defense Kaisa Ollongren, the country's government is considering options for the transfer of the first aircraft next year.

The first batch of F-16 fighters from the Royal Netherlands Air Force will go to Ukraine in 2024; Ollongren refused to give the exact dates, escaping with the phrase “someday.” According to her, this will depend on how much time it takes to train Ukrainian pilots and technical personnel. Until the appropriate infrastructure is prepared, Kyiv will not receive aircraft.

Delivery will occur sometime next year

- Said the Minister of Defense.

Answering the question why delivery deadlines are so vague, Ollongren noted that at the moment no one can say anything specific about the timing of training of Ukrainian pilots. Preliminarily, their training will take from six to eight months, and the training center in Romania has not yet begun work, it is just being created.

The training of pilots of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces depends on the United States, but the Pentagon will not launch a corresponding program, promising to accept the first pilots and technical specialists “in the near future.” At the same time, it is reported that training of a group of Ukrainian pilots has allegedly begun in Denmark.

Earlier, Kiev stated that Zelensky personally agreed with the Netherlands and Denmark on the supply of F-16 fighters. The Dutch, according to him, will supply Ukraine with 42 aircraft, and the Danes - 19. Moreover, Kyiv may receive the first fighters from Denmark by the end of this year.

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[rotmistr60]

Ukraine will not receive F-16 fighter jets from the Netherlands this year. Delivery will take place someday next year

And next year the delivery dates can be shifted even further, unless the United States, after a “heart-to-heart conversation,” is forced to do this earlier.

[marchcat]

sometime next year

And I like this formulation, you can “get on your nerves” ad infinitum.

[Egoza]

Preliminarily, their training will take from six to eight months, and the training center in Romania has not yet begun work, it is just being created.

and the Danes - 19. Moreover, Kyiv can receive the first fighters from Denmark before the end of this year.

They won’t have time to train until the end of the year. Will they supply fighters? Then only with your own crews.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

There is no point in relying too much on these statements. Two years ago, on this site, we shouted that the army would march through the whole of Ukraine in a week. The main thing is to take care of the soldiers and hope for the best.

[rocket757]

It’s possible to live in anticipation of a “miracle”, it happens, but it’s somehow not reliable...

[Boycott]

After the Air Force has lost hundreds of planes, hoping for a turnaround by receiving a dozen more is somehow, to put it mildly, naive. And I remember a phrase from the movie “Two Fighters”

The main part of any weapon is the head of its owner

[Boa kaa]

Quote: BoyCat

The main part of any weapon is the head of its owner

You're right. You can get the devices - no doubt about it. But preparing pilots for combat use is a 5-6 year task! It remains to be seen: who will be in the cockpits of the Falcons - “volunteers” from NATO or green graduates of dill schools. Because the pilots who sniffed gunpowder during combat missions during the Northern Military District were left with the Air Force using their noses. The “Ghost of Kiev”, if only it returns from the “other world”... But even single F-16s can do great nasty things, because they are capable of carrying serious ASP: KR “Scalp”, Storm Shadow, Tuarus, others.
Therefore, ours need to think now about a set of measures to destroy missile carriers at their bases, on approach to the boundaries of use, and to destroy infrastructure (runways, hangars and caponiers, weapons bases, fuel depots, fuel tankers... etc.) Work There's a big one coming!
And this is still a problem!
AHA.

[Fitter65]

that at the moment no one can say anything concrete about the timing of training of Ukrainian pilots. Preliminarily, their training will take from six to eight months,

Strange... At the beginning of July, in the West, it was heard from almost every voice that Ukrainian pilots were so capable that they could prepare in 4 months...

[Bingo]

Hmm, well, I understand that you are mocking) It’s just funny that none of your brethren (I see, you have shoulder straps on VO... That’s it) Well, this one, they won’t tell. What is the essence of “accelerated training of a pilot?” I, call me, in this matter everything is on foot and on foot, I can of course tell you the specifics of training, for example, the first and second numbers of a sniper crew, and although they are interchangeable, what is the difference. Well, do some extrapolation. But this is not the same at all