Several dozen pilots are already ready to fight on the F-16 - Air Force

Several dozen pilots are already ready to fight on the F-16.

This was said by the spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, on the air of the national telethon "United News".

"We plan to transfer all pilots (to the F-16 — ed.). We need to teach everyone. But the Commander of the Air Force has determined pilots who already have a certain level of English, combat experience, and these are young pilots. They are ready to fight even tomorrow. A political decision is needed here so that we can start the process of training ground personnel, that is combat management officers, military engineers. Several dozen pilots are ready to fight," Ignat said.

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