Pentagon says conditions for transferring F-16s to Ukraine “not ideal” right now
Pravda Ukraine
The US believes that Russia’s current air defence and air force capabilities create “not ideal conditions” for supplying Ukraine with US-made F-16 fighter jets at this time.
Source: Lieutenant General Douglas Sims, Director of Operations of the US Joint Staff, at a briefing on Thursday, quoted by European Pravda
Details: The representative of the US Department of Defence has noted that the conditions under which combat operations take place change over time, “but the conditions right now for the employment of the F-16s are probably not ideal”.