Im proud to have Danmark as a neighbour. You are great!! Gretings from Sweden! SLAVA UKRAINE!

Greetings to Danmark and Sweden from the Netherlands. Love to the pilots and crew.

As another Dane I agree. Slava Ukraini!

The fact that the Scandinavian and Baltic countries provide the most aid (in GDP percentage) never stops to amaze me. Thanks for your position!

Great decision, I am really appreciated what your country and people help on the Ukraine, I am not Ukrainian and I’m coming from Hong Kong.

🤡🤡

Why they wearing masks

Guess it's to stop facial recognition software tracing him and tracking him to the F16 training location. Seems sensible to me.

​@@davejohn23The location is known, it's in Skrydstrup. I'm thinking it's to avoid recognition so the Russians don't go for their families.

Yeah I considered that but why show so much of their features, not sure how good facial recognition is but it wouldn't surprise me if it could at least get partial matches on head and eyes. Having said all this Ukrainian intelligence service is top notch so they know best.

Highfive here from Denmark!

+1. We might say we hate the Danes but that’s just friendly banters between brothers! Greetings from Sweden!🇸🇪

Australia here/ And so you ought to be proud !! WELL DONE YOU -SCANDIES !!

@@Hiznogoodu damn Swedes 😛 u better be careful, coz we just got a new king, so we might pay u a visit 🤣🤣 naaah, we have grown up, and it's all love! ♥ from Denmark

As a Dutchman it feels good that we work as a team with our Danish neigbours.

I am from Ukraine. Thanks to all Scandinavian countries for their support!

Slavs rusdia

🤙🇺🇦🔱🇺🇦🔱🇺🇦🔱😎👍❤️

​@@manojadikari129estudia historia chaval estudia sino serás un no util

@@manojadikari129 R.I.P Russia. The mother drones are also coming. Looking for persons of interest. They can,t hide anymore.

​​@@manojadikari129Russian Child propagandist

Stimmt Deutschland🇩🇪 liebt diese Dänen 🇩🇰, Norweger 🇳🇴, Schweden 🇸🇪 und Finnen 🇫🇮 auch!

🥰Thank you!

Tack kompis 👍

@znarkz First unironic kind words about my nationality I've ever heard from a Swede... I almost don't know what to do with it. Okay, let me try. Here we go: Swedes aren't, actually, totally humorless... AND your meatballs are better than ours! What a strange feeling this is. Anyway, welcome to NATO, hopefully soon, my friends.

@@oelergodt I'm a fellow Dane - and I so agree with what you write! Swedes rock!

Thank you Netherlands!

Thank you to The Netherlands.

Israel, meanwhile, has 224, along with 60 F-35's, and isn't even offering training.

Largest fleet next to US but there kind of busy right now they need all the aircraft and pilots/techs incase theirs turns into a regional conflict.

Thank you so much Netherlands 🌟✊️ 🇳🇱 ❤️🇺🇦

We, the Nordic countries, will stand with Ukraine _all_ the way, to full liberation of all people and land. 🔱🌻Слава Україні! Героям слава! 💙💛 Stay safe. PTN HLO

Gripens shouldn't be too far behind. Hungary votes on Monday, and we brib€d them with 4 new Gripens this week. Hang in there Ukraine. 💛💙 (To explain what I mean, Swedish politicians have said no to donating Gripens as long as we are not in NATO. After joining NATO it's gloves off for Sweden).

@@nian60 We trust you Swedish brothers and sisters and welcome you to NATO from the deepest corners of our souls. This is the first time in history all of the Nordic Brother nations are full heartedly in the same alliance! Let Putin feel what that means!

​@@steffenb.jrgensen2014yes, that’s true, but the Alliance is not complete yet... Ukraine is missing

I want to thank both The Netherlands and Denmark.

Highfive here from Denmark! We stand together in Europe! And thank you aswell with support from Holland💪🏻 Ukraine needs everything they can get! They fight for ALL of us! now that article 5 cant be activated…. Slava ukranini

The rest of us in other NATO countries don't blame you, even though you guys feel you could do more you've still contributed a ton, we know you're not all like your politicians. May we have many more years of supporting each other.

USA already did much. But i do not understand why so much material that is standing in the desert is not given to ukrain. All M1A1 are now out of service, some other material is recycled by melting it and granades are no longer used by the Army. Ukrain may use all of it. Even old armored trucks are better than no trucks, even the older american vehicles are good material if a T62 or older is facing and the M1A1 are better than everything others have and do not need even to have something at home.

​@@MP-nc2pw I am a "cold war child", a Marine in the 80s, and tried to explain to my America1st son that 63% of aid is invested into jobs for Americans like readying this surplus for use in UKR. There is a minority of us that just can't hear the facts even if it comes from loved ones

@@24mudak USA did very much! But we have the problem that we in Europe did not enouth over the last years. We have nothing more at the moment we can sent. So everything standing around what is no longer used would be great even if we pay for old metal. I am from Germany and because of the history we have a very restricted law about weapons. So our producers are very restricted in building new war material Even if we try to allow as much as possible it will be much to less we are able to produce.

Tell me whyTurkey wants S400 as a Nato member? We have more than 250 F16 and pilots are trained but we want F35 why? We want our own 5Th generation fighter jet why? Why Turkish nato pilots couldn't fly over Syria against Russian air defence with F16 when we shot down Russian Mig 25 near Syria Turkish border. Why Nato countries want to buy 5 th generation fighter jet after the war against Russian threat and sending F16 to Ukraine?

Ja danke an die Niederländer aus Deutschland! Nur gemeinsam sind wir stark für die Ukraine.

@@WahrsagermithoherQuote SLAVA NATO & Ukraine!

Thank you to The Netherlands.

daarom wel ja...nu de rest nog oplossen in het land zelf he :)

Viva otan bravo países bajos desde españa

As a Norwegian reading this, Americans need to stop the MAGA and get back to business...

@@KjetilBalstadbro you and me both. its baaaad. my neighbor has a sign about 5g towers still....

@@seahad4744 Yeah, It's concerning. I used to hope what we see on social media isn't representative for the general public, but I have extended family living in the states, and I'm sad to say, they walk around in red hats. Every time I talk to them I notice them becoming more føkked up than last time, and resently we have almost broken contact. They are smart people, but US politics have become some kind of weird religion, it's scary. I see ppl joking about The Handmaids Tale, but I don't think that joke is funny any more. The next round of elections are in my opinion existential to the US as we know it.

@@KjetilBalstadIt is def a wild thing I am not happy having to live through. To me it's like people are treating politics like sports and "having" a team. I'm registered independent. With what the right has turned into, I dont see a future of ever backing them. Last election people showed up to shut out the vocal minority we see on social media and shit. Sadly we need that for local and state elections to keep the super crazy out. I think this coming election will be the same as lasts. Hopefully I am not proven wrong.

The US has a lot of F-16s in storage - many of those fighters could probably be put into operative condition without too much effort - and some used for valuable spare parts - instead of just "rusting" away in a desert or a warehouse.

Cheers brother here from Denmark! All support for Ukraine is SO important!

Being Swedish I can say that we are never leaving you. Our finance minister said this week "we will continue to support Ukraine militarily and financially, regardless of what other countries do". And I think that is safe to assume for the other NB8 too (Nordic - Baltic 8). 💛💙

The problem will be it's lifecycle... combat strains the structure, there's a reason why UKR didn't take the Aussie's decom F-18s. At least it's not as worn down... but they will need to shop for new jets in the near future, at least most planes not from the former commies and commies aligned have a similar architecture and “language”.

@@PrograError It is not so much the maintenance, that can be taken care of, even if it means changing parts as they become worn out until you have a de facto new plane. It is much more a question of how many new and future "gadgets" to can press into a palne designed many decades ago. The F16s currently being donated are are world calls for 2024 and will do fine in 2025 and 2026 too, but in the coming decades has no chance vs the F35 generation. I can't think of a better finale for the splendid F 16 design than to save Ukaine!

@@steffenb.jrgensen2014 you do realise the F4s was only recently decom-ed, with ROKAF being the latest of the planned decommission. and that's a gen 3 platform

it's far superior to anything russia has today and it's not even close. F16 is an amazing plane

hahahaha, you clearly have no idea about airplanes. The F16 is on par with the MiG 29, only the F16 has been upgraded with radars and more modern missiles, and they are far worse than Russian modern planes, all the F16s will be destroyed very quickly, because they don't have even the slightest chance..be realistic, just look and see. real situation

I agree but this comment is going to anger so many butthurt bots lol. I'm here for the ride haha. But it's true, Russia has aircraft with better radars and they have a missile with better range however given that they havnt really done shit in Ukraine it's just smoke and mirrors. The F-16 has way better air to ground capabilities because most russian jets don't even have targeting pods and the glide bombs they do drop are very inaccurate and crude design which often malfunction but F-16s munitions like the SDBs and JSOW are extremely accurate like all NATO munitions just because of a standard which should be achieved and is achieved. Also the AMRAAM is better than russian long range missiles.

​@miticmilos then how come the ukrainian air force hasn't been wiped out yet?

I wouldn't say that. Why are we (I am Danish) upgrading to F35? Why not just order new F16's? Are the air forces in NATO stupid in upgrading? The Air Forces might know something we don't know.

And she is absolutely beautiful

All of UNITED24 are doing amazing work, not just Zhenya. But Zhenya definitely as well! 🤗👌

In Europe, we trust Americans a lot more than we trust America, if that makes sense. You're always welcome over here for a beer - the very, very least we can do for our most important ally.

We still like you here in DK, and we hope that things will be straightened out in the US before long 😊

🙏🙏💙💛💙💛

Yeah but it's the house Republicans and maga members that have thrown the biggest monkey wrench into Ukrainian aid😢

True

If you from there then why you put our British flag up ? We hate Ukraine as we sick of our economy collapsing to help racists

А потом пилота этой посудины поставит в тупик летящий в него С400

Your right they could have trained on them at least

Well said, and it is good that Ukraine is on the road to having a modernized air force that can make a difference.

Sorry, but Ukraine has been the hold up. They sent us 32 brand new recruits to be pilots. None were pilots. We had to put them through basic training, flight school, English training & technical English training. That took almost a year. Training has gone much slower, and the washout rate has been higher than normal with the Ukrainians, as they don't really seem up to the task of jumping into a modern fighter. The Romanians did much better.

One cannot live in the past. We all learn from mista!es, and, interestingly, a people with which i was intimate as a child, have NO past tense in their language. A common phrase in response to past difficulties among them, is: "I throw it all behind me."

@@donwyoming1936 The pilots in Skrydstrup now have lots of flight hours and combat experience but AFAIK needed to improve their English a lot before complex training could progress.

Mee Too. 👍

De nada irmao da Dinamrca

SEAD requires a lot of training. It could be years before they have a few pilots ready.

@@donwyoming1936 normally, I’d agree… But I have to say, considering what I’ve seen of the Russian air defense network around the front and Crimea, and with the second A-50 taken out, and so likely ensuring those aircraft will give the front a wide berth, I think KISS simple SEAD operations can still do enough damage to clear the front lines and much of Crimea for more aggressive Ukraine air operations while giving the troops a break from the pounding they been taking from Russian air as well as put further range limits on their air launched missiles. They don’t need to clear a path to and around Moscow, Murmansk, or airbases for bombers to perform a strike. Just push the front line air defense envelope far enough back to keep Russian air-to-ground attack aircraft and fighters from being protected when they are within their weapons range of the front lines. Beyond Black Sea operations, Russian aircraft dont venture much outside that envelope. I think the Ukrainians, with abbreviated mission specific training as well as planning and intelligence assistance from NATO, Operation “Hey Look, Your Shoes Untied” could succeed. A synoptic attack with MiGs as high bait and SCALP launchers, F-16’s burning in low (No A-50’s to see them) and popping up to launch HARM’s as close as practical when the radars , and drones for live battle damage assessment and (if they can get their hands on them) for F-16 JSOW targeting to chew up what the HARM’s and SCALPS haven’t hit, along with the crews. Or maybe I’m just a wishful idiot. 😊

@@donwyoming1936 That was my thought, too. And not just for the pilots, but for the weapons technicians.

Well they do need more interdictors, SEAD can be trained for later batches, plus they are not complete newbies. Theory and basic training should be fine... as long as the command staff is also given the same training and not plan a mission unless really needed...

SEAD would be a really great step up, but as is said in a post above, much of the critical theory is at the planning stage. Neither Denmark nor I believe the Netherlands have/had the specialized SEAD mission as part of their air forces. Individual pilots may have had some exchanges with USAF F-16 squadrons that had that role but it hasn't been the focus and it is something that will have to follow when the pilots and higher echelons can get the training in the US (or perhaps Sweden, I believe they do train SEAD with their Gripens).

Getting airframes isn't the problem. It's training pilots, ground crew and creating a supply line for parts and probably most critically a supply of weapons for the planes to use. Ukraine will burn through missiles at a rate which cannot really be resupplied.

Thank you to The Netherlands.

You don’t speak for us brits so lose the the Jack

Men Draken är gammal. 😐 JAS Gripen vore bättre. Tack iallafall, Norge.

@@nian60 Jo men Draken var et jagerfly, men Draken er også et firma som flyr agressor fly i USA som de trener mot i Red Flag øvelser som skal illustrere kamp mot russiske formasjoner. F-16 som er et universal fly er det eneste som kunne doneres nå, Gripen har de ikke nok av til å donere bort.

Yes, Norway is indeed very much part of the F-16 project too, we must not forget. Many thanks to Norway!

@@nian60 the school is called draken - not to be confused with the saab draken plane

Ça c'est bien vrai, les temps ont changé et le monde évolue tout a fait. Fini l'impérialisme, tous ensembles pour la liberté, pour l'union et pour les droits de l'homme! Vive l'Ukraine libre, vive le monde libre, et vive l'UE! 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇰🇷🇯🇵

Looking foreward to Sweden joining NATO.

@@TheLAGopherThank you. We will see what Hungary votes.

@@TheLAGopher Ka-CHING!

Yes it is.

They're more than capable of training up new pilots with no flight experience the same as any military does, doesn't matter what final fighter jet, cargo aircraft, or bomber the trainees end up flying, they all go through the same flight school before specializing on a particular final platform. Sweden could also be providing air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles, acquire and provide spares, do repairs, pay for fuel, etc., lots can be done to support the F-16 program without providing fighter jets themselves.

@@msytdc1577 OK, cool. 🙂 I am still hoping it is to provide Gripens eventually. 😊 Someone else in the comments noted that France also doesn't have F-16's. But France has its own jets, just like Sweden does.

Part of the coalition is replacement of the donated F-16s. So it's possible the countries without F-16s are offering to give other jets to the countries that are giving their own F-16s. For example maybe France is saying "you gave 4 F-16s away, so here, have 4 Raffales."

@@nian60 How many Gripens would Sweden be capable of producing in say 2025? The Gripen would appear a very suitable replacement for the F16s

Tack så mycket Danmark, från Sverige.

The F16 is a jet that looks like it could be a space fighter ....... mind you the F104 Starfighter also looked pretty wicked in it's day.

It's Denmark in this case...

As a dane i Think that all of Europe should build a monument for Ukraine! They fight for all of us! Thats why the support has to grow! And agreements are so important!🙏🏻👍🏻

@@hektoram Russia is not trying to take over NATO