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2022-03-01 Europe

EU partners to hand over 70 war planes to Ukrainian Army

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Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 But when? What's the expectation of when they actually come on line?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-03-01 00:22|| 2022-03-01 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Missions from polish airfields?

Posted by Xyz 2022-03-01 04:12|| 2022-03-01 04:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Missions from polish airfields?

Doubtful. That would drag NATO into the game.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-01 10:15|| 2022-03-01 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 @2 yeah that caught my eye too. Russia could argue that NATO is now interfering since it is allowing hostile planes to base from its territory and strike/invade Poland as reprisal. Easy to expand this war with that little tidbit.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-01 10:15|| 2022-03-01 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Air incursions from Poland is bad juju.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-01 10:24|| 2022-03-01 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 "Who's gonna fly them, kid....you?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-01 10:29|| 2022-03-01 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Putin is becoming so enraged over this, I'm half expecting to see video of him eating his tie. A humiliated and angry man with bloodlust and nukes is very dangerous.

Posted by AuburnTom 2022-03-01 10:43|| 2022-03-01 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Like I said yesterday - with no operational ground control radar to vector them onto targets they are simply targets themselves

Posted by Speating Spaque1999 2022-03-01 11:07|| 2022-03-01 11:07|| Front Page Top

#9 with no operational ground control radar to vector them onto targets they are simply targets themselves

That seems kinda-sorta important. Makes me wonder if the fighter plane offers are just a form of virtue signaling.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-01 11:27|| 2022-03-01 11:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Doing some reading it looks like the newer variants fix that issue?

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-03-01 13:46|| 2022-03-01 13:46|| Front Page Top

#11 All the hafta do is fly along the 40 mile long convoy headed to Kiev. How can they miss?

I expect the Soviets ... excuse me, Russians - might have some planes of their own flying top cover for their tempting column of targets.

Posted by Bobby 2022-03-01 14:34|| 2022-03-01 14:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Think again
European plan to donate fighter jets to Ukraine collapses
politico.com
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/28/ukrainian-pilots-arrive-in-poland-to-pick-up-donated-fighter-jets-00012560

Soon after, a Ukrainian government official told POLITICO their country had sent pilots to Poland to pick up the jets and the Ukrainian parliament announced that the planes from Slovakia, Bulgaria and Poland would soon be on their way.

But by Tuesday, Bulgaria and Slovakia said there was no deal to send fighters, and the Polish president, appearing at a Polish air base alongside NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, said no planes would be flying any time soon.

Posted by Butch Forkbeard2189 2022-03-01 15:58|| 2022-03-01 15:58|| Front Page Top

#13 From what I read the planes have too many Nato upgrades their pilots don't know how to use and ground crews can't support

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-03-01 17:36|| 2022-03-01 17:36|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm sure Putin's nuke comments had nothing to do with the Polish/Slavakian change of heart.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-01 19:18|| 2022-03-01 19:18|| Front Page Top

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