What We Should Talk About When We Talk About F-16s Flying In Ukraine

Five practical implications

The F-16s are happening. With the politics and paradoxes and panegyrics behind us, we only await the first Ukrainians completing training and receiving their planes. The Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) will also receive JAS 39 Gripen jets from Sweden soon, and while I am less familiar with that platform, my understanding is that it shares a lot with the Fight…