Reports of Allegedly Catastrophic Malfunction Rates Among Ukrainian F-16s Are Untrue – MFA Spokesperson
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Ukraine said today that it is still "intensively" using its fleet of F-16 fighter jets, manufactured in the United States and supplied by its Western allies, in response to media reports that maintenance problems with the aircraft have largely rendered them unusable, Agence France-Presse reported, BTA reported. "Ukraine is intensively using its fleet of F-16 fighter jets in difficult conditions. Recent publications claiming that the aircraft's c…
Ukraine on Friday denied that it faced problems with the maintenance and supply of spare parts for the F-16 fighters and said it would be able to keep them in the air throughout the winter.
Ukraine denies that it is in danger of running out of F-16s. According to the government in Kyiv, the claim that maintenance on the fighter jets is proceeding so slowly that they will all be grounded this coming winter is "simply not true," as an American newspaper wrote.
Ukraine said on Friday that it is still using "the intensive F-16 fighter aircraft of American manufacture and supplied by its Western allies, reacting to an article in the press according to which a large number of such aircraft have...
<p>Claims about the catastrophically low readiness and ultra-long maintenance of the F-16 are false - Foreign Ministry Spokesman Georgy Tykhyi called false statements about the low readiness of the F-16 and long repairs. According to him, service Accelerates.</p>
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