Ukraine’s F-16s: Too Little, Too Late

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2 ай бұрын

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- US-made F-16s will arrive in Ukraine much later than anticipated and in much smaller numbers than expected;
- The Western media has assumed F-16s might help Ukraine bolster its flagging air defenses against both Russian cruise missiles and Russian fighter-bombers dropping stand-off guided glide bombs, but much more likely the handful of aircraft will be used to continue Ukraine’s symbolic air-launched cruise missile strikes;
- The Western media has admitted that air forces transitioning from Soviet-era warplanes to the F-16 can take years to do properly, rushing Ukraine’s transition will result in the same predictable losses of equipment due to ineffective operators that Western main battle tanks transferred to Ukraine suffered;
- Romania has established a “pilot training hub” for NATO and Ukrainian pilots operating F-16 warplanes;
- Following revelations from leaked conversations of German military officers of NATO troops on the ground operating complex Western equipment, there exists the possibility NATO pilots could operate Ukrainian-marked F-16s;
- Russia’s larger number of warplanes and advanced integrated air defense capabilities will prevent small numbers of F-16s from significantly changing the course of the conflict strategically;
References:
New York Times - Ukraine Could Deploy F-16s as Soon as July, but Only a Few (March 11, 2024):
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/wo...
Air & Space Forces Magazine - Romania Is a Model for Training Ukraine’s Pilots to Fly F-16s (August 2023):
www.airandspaceforces.com/rom...
The War Zone - This Is How Long It Would Really Take Ukraine’s Pilots To Convert To F-16s (February 2023):
www.twz.com/this-is-how-long-...
Reuters - Romania opens F-16 pilot training hub for NATO allies, Ukraine (November 2023):
www.reuters.com/business/aero...
Guardian - British soldiers ‘on the ground’ in Ukraine, says German military leak (March 4, 2024):
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...
US Department of Defense Inspector General - Press Release: Evaluation of Sustainment Strategies for the Patriot Air Defense Systems Transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces (DODIG-2024-056) and Evaluation of the DoD's Sustainment Plan for Bradley, Stryker, and Abrams Armored Weapon Systems (February 20, 2024):
www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotligh...
RAND Corporation - F-16s Are No Magic Bullet for Ukraine, but They Are a Game Changer with the Right Munitions (October 2023):
www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/...
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@TheNewAtlas 2 ай бұрын

I've been out of town for some important family business, I prepared several videos ahead of time. I will be addressing the terrorist attack in Moscow later this week here, and have already covered it on Telegram and X. Thank you for your patience.

@chiddleychidds4917 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Brian for all your work, you are bloody champion mate!

@maryginger4877 2 ай бұрын

He who speaks last, will speak the wisest ...

@dizzyos 2 ай бұрын

Shame yourself. Your Videos are Russian propaganda

@krisbushill 2 ай бұрын

@@dizzyos🤡🥱

@numbersix8919 2 ай бұрын

Do your thing man, more power to you. Thank you for your outstanding work.

@PerceivedREALITY999 2 ай бұрын

Military expert sean penn said one squadron of F-16s will beat Russia. The actor has watched too many Hollywood movies.

@________2705 2 ай бұрын

@@jameschalkwig787 true story of course... like any other merican war movie.

@dennischingpen-gs5zn 2 ай бұрын

Pakistani- Chinese made Low quality jf 17 jet also shot down F- 16 during Exercise recently.. Soviet Era Mig-21 jets shot down F-16 over Northern Pakistan in dog fight..

@laloelsalamanca 2 ай бұрын

Remeber, Sean Penn at one time also "helped Haiti"...

@williemays2488 2 ай бұрын

@@laloelsalamancawe don't need his help. 🇭🇹

@matthewfusaro2590 2 ай бұрын

I remember when Sean Penn went to Iraq to meet Saddam Hussain. This clown always seems to be on the wrong side of history.

@johnmcentegart007 2 ай бұрын

It’s a terrible thing to be stupid and not to know it.

@davidlazarus67 2 ай бұрын

Knowing your limits stops you thinking you can do anything and getting into very deep water.

@devilliers123 2 ай бұрын

But such are usually happy in dreams

@RubbittTheBruise 2 ай бұрын

When you're dead, you don't know that you're dead. It's other people who suffer. It's the same when you are stupid.

@juliantheapostate8295 2 ай бұрын

Are people who know they are stupid, truly stupid?

@davidlazarus67 2 ай бұрын

@@juliantheapostate8295 No they have some awareness of their limits.

@bobilaforce8252 2 ай бұрын

Respect from Serbia. This is an excellent channel!!!

@oot007 2 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. Brian was 100% correct about their counteroffensive last year and he's right about the impact of the F16 as well.

@jking3892 2 ай бұрын

This dude is an Excellent Narrator!!! Unbaised and Knowledgeable

@oot007 2 ай бұрын

@@jking3892 This channel is the real deal. Brian Berletic is a former a US Marines. I think he was an Optical and Electrical Specialist there.

@bobilaforce8252 2 ай бұрын

@@jking3892 👍

@stephendgreen1502 2 ай бұрын

So West planes maintained by West contractors and flown from West airbases with West pilots, but they each carry an invoice addressed to Ukraine, so the West is not a participant, only Ukraine is. Got that? This is the rules based order.

@oot007 2 ай бұрын

You are 100% right plus no country ever signed the RBO other than the yooessay and it'sminions.

@maigepresents5840 2 ай бұрын

US after WW2... we need to have international laws... The UN: makes international laws US after UN: wow, hang on there bud, we don't like the laws, we're just gonna make up some rules and expect everyone to follow them...

@stephendgreen1502 2 ай бұрын

@@maigepresents5840 They expect everyone to follow their rules, but have no intention of following them too. Like we saw with lockdowns.

@oot007 2 ай бұрын

@@maigepresents5840 💯

@jimmyrustle3784 2 ай бұрын

USA: We make the rules. We have powerful weapons. Russia: So do we

@petermcgarrymusicandflying 2 ай бұрын

Leopards, Abrams, Challengers - all failed and the F-16 will be no different.

@Trompicavalas 2 ай бұрын

switch blades, bayraktars, CV-90s, Bradleys, Caesars Hotwitzers, javelins, patriots, himars, vampires ... Russia is defeating all the panoplia of western weapons developed along the last 40 years . Moreover they are collecting detailed knowledge about all those systems (most of them has been captured already) and they are sharing that information with China , whose demographic power is 10 times Russian's and whose industrial power is 30 times Russian industrial capabilities . Only for this, even from a strict pro-western position, all the current western leaders should be prosecuted as traitors

@Trompicavalas 2 ай бұрын

@petermcgarrymusicandflying ... and ... switch blades, bayraktars, CV-90s, Bradleys, Caesars Hotwitzers, javelins, patriots, himars, vampires ... Russia is defeating all the panoplia of western weapons developed along the last 40 years . Moreover they are collecting detailed knowledge about all those systems (most of them has been captured already) and they are sharing that information with China ( it is reported that there are chinese observers at the ground ) , whose demographic power is 10 times Russian's and whose industrial power is 30 times Russian industrial capabilities . Only for this, even from a strict pro-western position, all the current western leaders should be prosecuted as traitors

@tanksmakau7672 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant and sound comment. Well done, comrade

@ltdada74 2 ай бұрын

Bayraktar, Patriot, HIMARS, Storm Shadow, etc….etc….and on top of that a lot of sanctions.

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk Raging successes in the junkyard and being taken back to Russia as trophies of war, yes indeed.

@hrep14 2 ай бұрын

Remember they have the "Ghost of Kiev" to fly them.

@maigepresents5840 2 ай бұрын

I heard Jason Statham will be playing him in an upcoming movie... 😂

@blcheah2672 2 ай бұрын

I thought that guy was killed in 2023...

@hkiani6853 2 ай бұрын

That's all they can do, to make a film about their dream win. May be they should give Mr Z a roll too.

@el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri 2 ай бұрын

I heard those F16 will have 2 seats, one for the ghost and the other for Anderson Cooper, so he can interview him again but this time from the heart of the event, this will truly give "LIVE EXCLUSIVE" a new meaning.

@eddiehah9842 2 ай бұрын

LOL

@user-td9tc1ys7o 2 ай бұрын

Another problem is that if combate missions are flown from romania, those bases used became a legal target under rules of war and international law.

@jwilliam2255 2 ай бұрын

The US has not engaged a real enemy force in a serious war that has required long term sustainment of personnel and materiel since Vietnam. The idiots led by Nuland, and involving the State Dept, DoD, Congress and WH simply *assumed* that the conflict would be over in 90 days based on their absolute ignorance of what the Russian military and military industrial base could do when properly motivated. Absolutely pathetic.

@WangMingGe 2 ай бұрын

Even in Vietnam, they were not fighting full-scale battles with peer-level air forces, tank divisions and massed artillery on the other side. You'd have to go back to Korea to get the sort of big smash-up of full armies along defensive lines that is occurring in eastern Ukraine currently.

@tekinfomedi 2 ай бұрын

@@WangMingGe Maybe it should be WW2. In Korea, the US had no counterstrategy to the CCP and had to retreat along 1/2 of Korea in the face of a poorly-armed guerilla force back to the 38th parallel. The US was lucky that the other side did not have the advanced weaponry and a truly functioning navy and air force back then. Once back to the 38th, the US never tried again to truly conquer the North. Good luck to US troops if they really had to face Russians in the 5 regions.

@WangMingGe 2 ай бұрын

You're right. Believe it or not, I actually speak and read+write Chinese (although ethnically Ukrainian). Reading sources from the other side...it's illuminating. The Chinese freely admit, in their own sources, that they were terribly equipped. A mish-mash of different small arms (American and Japanese captures from ww2 and the Chinese Civil War), very limited tank force, but, most of all, cold and hunger....their perserverence is remarkable, in the context, e.g. many soldiers night-blind because of a lack of Vitamin A, due to eating nothing but noodles/rice/flour cakes for months on end, yet the US forces were quite disturbed by the PLA's immense usage of night attacks. I suppose I am being generous, as, though the Chinese had numbers and artillery, they lacked everything else. WW2 would, as you say, be the last time they directly faced a modern industrial nation. BTW, this may seem redundant, but I see so much childish rudeness about our war, I wish to say I appreciate that we can discuss civilly even though our sympathies might be for different sides in this. @@tekinfomedi

@herpderp7114 2 ай бұрын

@@WangMingGe If you look at the losses US took in Vietnam, that was 100% a proper war with full-scale battles. The amount of planes and materiel lost was insane. Those Vietnamese were no pushovers. Maybe they weren't on par with US, but whatever they had available was enough to really put a hurt on US operations.

@WangMingGe 2 ай бұрын

It's not the same as a peer competitor, to use Mearsheimer's phrase (I don't like his takes on Ukrainian history, as a Ukrainian, but he's a smart man). Vietnam's air force was still tiny, limited to short range fighters (no long range bombers/strike aircraft), no navy besides little patrol boats operating near or inshore, and it didn't have its own industrial capacity. Whereas, agreeing with one of the earlier posters, if you look at, say, Germany or Japan in WW2, these were nations with the full range of war equipment, their own factories, mines, arms industry etc. Of course the Vietnamese were no pushovers (in the end, they won, after all), nor were the Afghans, but they weren't fighting like how the Russians fight, which is the concern for any NATO country now. @@herpderp7114

@elnach3240 2 ай бұрын

The F-16 entered service in 1978. The idea they are some new cutting edge weapon is a joke.

@WangMingGe 2 ай бұрын

The MiG29 is actually a somewhat more modern plane....I remember, watching documentaries as a kid, in the 1990s-00s, and seeing how even American pilots, given a chance to test both, admitted the MiG29 was better for air-to-air/dogfighting against enemy fighters, though the F16 was better for 'multirole'/ordinance-carrying missions (e.g. when you need to bomb some villages or guys with toyota pickup trucks in Afghanistan). Also, given the ruggedness of the Migs and their ability to use even low-grade airfields and to need less maintenance, I'd say the F16s are a slight downgrade.

@elnach3240 2 ай бұрын

@@WangMingGe and the Mig 29 is antiquated and archaic compared to the latest Sukoi's.

@WangMingGe 2 ай бұрын

Indeed. @@elnach3240

@t20turnaround49 2 ай бұрын

NATO air crews will fly these planes,this is just the pretence that Ukrainian pilots will be flying these planes.

@TB-zw7dt 2 ай бұрын

Flying F-16's maintained by Ukrainian's? Are we to all believe that as well?

@georgechristoforou991 2 ай бұрын

Polish pilots pretending to be Ukrainian flying f16s.

@moharak 2 ай бұрын

Yeah. I think its safe to say that will happen.

@joedoe7041 2 ай бұрын

pretty much

@karlm9584 2 ай бұрын

All 6 of them willing to go up to fire the storm shadows

@enriquevazquez9746 2 ай бұрын

We say in Spanish “they are going to fall like flies”. Van a caer como moscas.

@189Blake 2 ай бұрын

Aren't they doing so already? Poland has been on Ukraine for about a year now.

@jonathanloux7863 2 ай бұрын

As a cost cutting move, Ukraine will contract out F-16 maintenance to Boeing.

@screamingmonk 2 ай бұрын

🤣

@robertaurens5665 2 ай бұрын

Trying to imagine Ukranian pilots using Googletranslate in the middle of a dogfight🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@SofaKingShit 2 ай бұрын

"Colonel why does the target is that the lamb doesn't hold the consequence of everything is how much they want to stay down on that glass".

@user-yr8jj5ut7z 2 ай бұрын

They always could ask for all the switches and dials in the cockpit be written in Russian?

@mik71 2 ай бұрын

Dogfighting is a thing of the past

@monaliza3334 2 ай бұрын

Where is Georgia, oh sh*te we are flying to Merica😂 Not the Georgia at the black sea...

@monaliza3334 2 ай бұрын

Ow fq sh*t st. Petersburg in Russia or Florida 😮😂.

@nickl5658 2 ай бұрын

Aren't F16 really old planes? These F16 will probably be older than the pilots flying them.

@user-mv7jg3pb3n 2 ай бұрын

Not 'probably'😊

@ObeyNoLies 2 ай бұрын

That's nothing new.

@AlexDrastico380 2 ай бұрын

They are constantly modernized. It's not the F16 built 20 years ago.

@fredretteketet 16 күн бұрын

😂 haha yes

@_zoinks2554 2 ай бұрын

The F-16 is a viable air to ground platform but it can't compare to the current gen interceptors of Russia.

@PerceivedREALITY999 2 ай бұрын

The globalists wanted to make a fool out of Russia. But instead, the globalists ended up making fools of themselves. Let that be a lesson.

@thomasscott199 2 ай бұрын

They are not very good at fighting people with sandals and white flags. Yet they thought they could defeat a super power 🤪 and are provoking China! Makes you think that the globalists really want ww3

@Triggernlfrl 2 ай бұрын

It is more the ordinary human that ended up making (death) fools of themselves. Let that be a lesson.

@ExpatZ266 2 ай бұрын

@@Triggernlfrl No, he got it right.

@ramnivdc7051 2 ай бұрын

👍

@dammitdad 2 ай бұрын

No lesson learned. They are not capable of it which is why they were chosen.

@fixit1195 2 ай бұрын

loads of dollars still to be made

@spotshortmanipulators4721 2 ай бұрын

Nuance, To Be Printed...

@KiwiRob351 2 ай бұрын

The Ukraine grift is still on however the USA knows Ukraine is a done dinner

@Bullitt3401 2 ай бұрын

The coke must flow and the diaper filler-upper still wants his 10%, no doubt.

@MrExplicitblack 2 ай бұрын

Tapping the pockets of tax payers. How long will the silence go on?

@Jay...777 2 ай бұрын

Russia is bombing the airfield in the extreme west of Ukr slated for F16 use. F16 need super smooth runways to take-off & land. Russia seems on top of the problem.

@YankeeVatnik1917 2 ай бұрын

The mig 29 were designed to fight f16 😂

@YankeeVatnik1917 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk that's odd it's very contrary to what my flight instructor a former f16 pilot who not only fought German mig 29 in training got to fly them in exchange programs is saying right now but this being a KZfaq comments section where everyone is the greatest mind in history on any subject so I'm sure you know way more than him on the subject sport.

@HeilagOlav 2 ай бұрын

Yes and no. Not need super smooth runway. They can land on pawed roads. But they are pron to foreign object damage because they suck the air from ground all the time. It was a good plane, in some terms better then f35...

@user-wj1xj9do1y 2 ай бұрын

Russia will "land" the F-16's with no problem.

@Jay...777 2 ай бұрын

The only maintenance teams are NATO troops. Even if the pilots are Ukr. Cant afford mishaps with delicate landing gear. Agree about the F35 - a profit driven boomdongal.@@HeilagOlav

@burtharbenson8860 2 ай бұрын

BB video- smartest guy In geopolitics on the planet. Always a good day when he has a new video.

@daltonmann4916 2 ай бұрын

well at least the russian s400 operators will get some practice!

@Winter_Jasmine 2 ай бұрын

Be strong Russia 🇷🇺

@nancygabionza4729 2 ай бұрын

Ir it will be worsen instead

@probasket8159 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Keep bringing us truth

@glenbolderson9279 2 ай бұрын

It was a ridiculous plan.

@frederickmwaurah7590 2 ай бұрын

If there's anything we've learned from this war is the much hyped expensive western weapons & equipment is they amount to nothing on a battlefield against a well armed force.

@mgtowmonger2729 2 ай бұрын

it's not about them being effective, it's about them being expensive and generating a huge profit for the warmongers in the usa. nothing else matters.

@sambas9257 2 ай бұрын

I thank you a lot for the courage and quality of your journalism. Everything you said since years about the trajectory of this conflict has been demonstrated true by facts when collective west didn't have the chance to hide them anymore. Industrial capacity, ammo and nuke shortage,times for training and r|plenishment of troops,timeline and usage effectiveness of pilot trained in west and many others.People, just watching your videos of one or two years ago or the Duran ones, or the Scott Ritter and Col Macgregor ones, will discover who was advicing us with information and who in newspapers,tv and parlaments was hiding and deceiving...

@andrebalsa203 2 ай бұрын

As I wrote before, any complex weapons systems requires a large amount of non-combatant personnel in the logistics, support and maintenance chains to keep operating and get deployed on the battlefield. In the case of Abrams M1 tanks, the ratio is approximately 10:1, or 40 non-combatant personnel for the 4 crew members. In the case of F-16 fighter jets, the ratio is 100:1, or 200 non-combatant for every two pilots assigned to a single F16. So in effect, just to deploy 6 F16s in Ukraine, the West needs to train (in English) not only 12 pilots, but also approximately 1,200 support personnel - or deploy NATO personnel to perform these roles. And at this stage, it's hard to find 1,200 "volunteers" willing to risk their lives in Ukraine. They know the minute they enter Ukraine they will become priority targets for Russian missiles.

@khunmikeon858 2 ай бұрын

I agree in principle, but I’m sure there would be some economies of scale that would alter your ratios for each and every additional plane. If 100 support people are needed for each plane, then its logical that that same 100 people could also take care of a 2nd or even a 3rd plane. It’s unlikely to be a linear equation. But whatever, 20 or 30 planes will not change the outcome.. Russia will succeed. Bravo Russia. Respect from Ireland. 🇮🇪💚🇷🇺

@robertplatte5700 2 ай бұрын

interesting statistics I did not what you have described

2 ай бұрын

They’ll do the maintenance in Poland I assume

@andrebalsa203 2 ай бұрын

@ The minute a Ukrainian-marked F-16 takes off from a Polish airstrip, Poland becomes a co-belligerent party in this war and that airstrip becomes a legitimate target for Russian missiles and drones. I don't think the Poles are stupid enough to allow that, but with Duda, one never knows.

2 ай бұрын

@@andrebalsa203 Yeah I got it. That’s what Putin said in his speech.

@zacharyhoffman9972 2 ай бұрын

Yes, the F-16s can be effective. Ukraine would just need the following: 1) a multi-year training cycle to achieve a working level proficiency with the platform 2) a full support package of suitable runways, training maintenance crews and sufficient parts inventory with continuous re-supply 3) adequate air defense for the runways and hangars 4) an integrated contingent of other aircraft for SEAD work to counter the extremely extensive Russian air defense systems 5) a large supply of munitions for the F-16 If all of this is in place, then the F-16s would be very effective against a Russian force from the 1980s or 1990s. The problem of course, is that they are facing 2024 Russians with layers of extremely effective air defense, a very large air force including 5th Gen and comparable 4th Gen fighters in far greater numbers and an enhanced ISR capability that will likely be destroying those aircraft before they get near the front.

@TheSecurdisc 2 ай бұрын

The reason why it is taking so long to supply the F-16's has nothing to do with training the pilots - they already know how to fly them. It's taking longer than they thought to teach them all how to speak Ukrainian.

@Windband1 2 ай бұрын

LMAO!! Comment of the week!! 🤣

@eoinclan 2 ай бұрын

But Brian, f16s are cool and so is Amerika. I don't think anyone outside of the target MSM audience believe these lightweight tin pots have any chance of making a difference on the battlefield.

@GouliatZekuom 2 ай бұрын

The F16 IS old and useless anyways. No sane person can believe that few F-16 will really compete with the 1000+ Russians fighters

@iwanspolwatch4281 2 ай бұрын

Yes, no sane persons...

@petrwindmeijer7542 2 ай бұрын

The old dutch f16 where written off ( cracked airframes) just 1/3 good still fly. They cant maintain western planes.

@ligaskirbauska8652 2 ай бұрын

@@petrwindmeijer7542Good thing instead off ✈️ yard they at least will go out in whole glory in battlefield as intended…not like they gonna fly for long anyways so maintenance is not the issue ….Issue is human life as this is suicide mission,overpriced iron coffins and waste of intelligent,highly skilled humans-pilots..

@Writeous0ne 2 ай бұрын

Ukraine won't even be able to fly them over the battlefield because Russia has way too many anti air defense systems.

@davidlazarus67 2 ай бұрын

They have to get past the Russian air defences first.

@Enfinauniverso 2 ай бұрын

I remember when they said leopard and Abrams tanks would be “game changers”. They said the same with HIMARS. I’m sure I watched an interview with Gen Petraeus where he hyped up the Ukrainian counteroffensive talking about how much ground they would cover in a short period of time 😂

@andreasbreschi5497 2 ай бұрын

They where game changer...they have proven to them that Nato is the second army in Ukraine 🎉

@joaoMTcoelho 2 ай бұрын

Petraeus was the only cia director that was caught passing secrets to his lover.

@user-wj1xj9do1y 2 ай бұрын

They covered a lot of ground with unalived Azov heroes.

@mgtowmonger2729 2 ай бұрын

the ground was covered with the debris of leopard and abrams ... and some patriot missile systems. but hey, a lot of westerners got filthy rich with kickbacks and money and that's what matters.

@viacheslav1 2 ай бұрын

Да пусть сразу всё присылают! За 20 дней уничтожили 4 абрамса. Чем больше пришлют, тем больше погибнет. Из 20 систем пэтриот 5 уже сожгли. Мы готовы ко всему, пупсики американские 🇷🇺♥️

@NaegolGollum 2 ай бұрын

American babies have alot to learn ❤😊

@makdaddi3921 2 ай бұрын

Nothing breeds bad decisions like desperation.

@gelinrefira 2 ай бұрын

45? 45! What difference does this make?! If it is 450 F-16Vs, that might make the Russia paused but 45 old F-16s? Do they even have AESA radars? The longest ranged missiles it can fire is AIM-120D which is already outclassed by the latest R-27 and R-77. They will get blown out of the sky. Do they really think these F-16s are going to have a K/D ratio against Russian Sukhois at 10/1 or can avoid S-300 and S-400? They are not waging a war campaign, they are waging a PR campaign to keep deluding their own people and themselves that this is fine, everything is fine.

@TB-zw7dt 2 ай бұрын

The PR campaign has not wavered since even before the conflict started.

@WangMingGe 2 ай бұрын

People often forget, even when the F16 was new, it wasn't a top of the line fighter. That was the F15. The F16 is to the F15 like the T72 is to the T64: the cheaper, simpler exportable version of the top-line thing. Some weapons systems focus on quality over quantity: there are plenty of accounts from WW2 of how a single, or a small number of Tigers and Panther tanks defeated or held off much larger forces of Shermans and T34s. But noone imagined a small quantity of Shermans would defeat a horde of Tigers, except maybe Hollywood. 450 F16s would be very useful. That's an air force. 45 B2 bombers, or F117 stealth fighters (or SU35s, for that matter) or some such fancy stuff might be interesting ,but 45 basic, export-grade decades-old F16s won't.

@gelinrefira 2 ай бұрын

@@WangMingGeAgreed. The F-16 was conceived as the Low in the High-Low fighter mix. Cheap to produce and export in large numbers, highly maneuverable for WVR fights, lightweight, easy to maintain (relative to F-15) and can carry limited ammunition to keep costs low and to preserve the platform's maneuverability. Over the years, it has morphed into a multi-role fighter and it is good enough if you are bombing enemies with no air defenses. But going against an integrated, sophisticated air defenses or a powerful air force on the attack, you are going to lose F-16s and lose a lot of them if you stubbornly try to penetrate the defenses or have them go up against more powerful jets with bigger radars and sophisticated BVR missiles backed by ground based radars and early warning support aircraft.

@WangMingGe 2 ай бұрын

Yep....the cruel mistake (cruel to us, and whoever believes it) is expecting 'the western/NATO way of warfighting' (as some videos actually mythologize it) to achieve bombing-Third-World-militia results in an entirely different type of conflict, pretending that it was the weapons, and not the unique circumstances, which made the aircraft seem so invincible. @@gelinrefira

@piotrgrzelak2613 2 ай бұрын

There is NO way they are getting aim-120D. That's the newest variant, only entered service in a last few years. USA won't risk this thing failing to detonate and falling somewhere Russians can pick it up and pick apart the avionics

@singular9 2 ай бұрын

The reason the F16 isn't adequate is this: Its a SEAD/DEAD jet that is stellar at dog fighting. In this conflict, there hasn't been a single merge between two adversary jets. Not one. Sead/Dead requires DECADES of experience in warzones, not training centers. Otherwise, its a plane with inferior radar, inferior payload capabiltiy, inferior range, and all F16 tactics are based on mid air refueling, which will not be happening in ukranian air space. Even 100 F16's wouldn't be enough, because the F16 was never designed to fly SOLO. It is meant to fly in an air superiority zone provided by F15 air cover.

@MartinMcAvoy 2 ай бұрын

Good points.

@user-mv7jg3pb3n 2 ай бұрын

@singular9 Excellent comment

@off6848 2 ай бұрын

A lot of that is true but the DPA channel did cover a mig31 air to air kill on a Ukrainian SU 24 a few months ago That’s hardly a fair matchup though the SU 24 was trying to deep strike and fly to the deck

@rankoorovic7904 2 ай бұрын

The money the US is sending to Ukraine they should use to i don't know maybe fix some bridges back home

@inezm8444 2 ай бұрын

Ouch...

@user-mv7jg3pb3n 2 ай бұрын

@rankoorovic7904 exactly - or fix the problems at their southern borders they share with Mexico

@IronCandyNotes 2 ай бұрын

Mortal Kombat: A handful of F-16 in a leaky country are gonna save the world? Biden: Exactly!

@user-yr8jj5ut7z 2 ай бұрын

Why have the Americans and others got a hang up about “saving the world”if it all ends in a whimper ever onward

@prestonyoung3807 2 ай бұрын

@@user-yr8jj5ut7z The US needs conflict to fuel its economy. That's all the US is good for

@soberanobrasil9370 2 ай бұрын

Another excelent analysis. Thank you!

@christiane.g.4142 2 ай бұрын

The F-16 Fighting Falcon was a magnificent air-to-air fighter IN ITS HEYDAY, but it is still a 3rd-generation warplane going against 6th generation Russian airpower and air defences. The Russian S-500 SAM's will swat the F-16's out of the sky like a flyswatter. This will embarass american military veterans like me

@dennischingpen-gs5zn 2 ай бұрын

Soviet era Indian Mig 21 jet Shot down Pakistan F-16 Jet over Northern pakistan during crisis few years back.. Photographic & video Proofs presented by India along with serial no. of that that down F-16 jet..which was refused to accept by USA inspite of proof)..

@user-yr8jj5ut7z 2 ай бұрын

It’s basically insulting the manufacturer and not America.

@Trompicavalas 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk 1 - There is still no evidence that Russia has deployed S500 in Ukraine. 2 - Ukraine has lost all the Mig 29s it had before February 22, 2022 and all those it received after that from other ex-communist countries. Basically Russia has eliminated all the Mig 29s that there were outside of Russia, as well as almost all Soviet-made fighter aircraft outside Russia before February 22, 2022 3 - As a consequence of point 2 above, it was proposed to send F-16 to Ukraine and Ukrainian pilots began to be trained on that aircraft a year ago.

@Trompicavalas 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk There is still no 6th gen aircraft in this planet . But Russia has 4th and 4.5th gen aircraft currently deployed in the ukr conflict and it has also 5th gen aircraft that have not yet seen over ukr

@Slaktrax 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk Source? Evidence?

@haroldteo7994 2 ай бұрын

U rush the pilots to train and go for war. The idiotic leaders are sending them to their death.

@eddiehah9842 2 ай бұрын

Poor souls, pathetic.

@terrific804 2 ай бұрын

Flying flying planes and maintaining them from bases in NATO countries I'm sure will cause Russia to attack those countries, which is what NATO wants for public opinion, in the first place isn't it?

@n3rdy11 2 ай бұрын

From what I've heard from my Romanian friends, the Romanian military is hardly a model of anything except for corruption.

@jetblack6850 2 ай бұрын

Next the US will send Rambo, Jack Preacher, John Connor, Equalizer Denzel Washngton,John McClane,and Liam Neeson.John Wick might have a better chance.

@hkiani6853 2 ай бұрын

They use Hoolywood to make film about how they are winning, propoganda, lies, garbage just like their BBC, CNN, Fox, etc, etc, etc

@williamgibson248 2 ай бұрын

Another dose of common sense 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@sodog44 2 ай бұрын

The fun part of the F-16 that they will get is that they will probably be older models with already overly stressed air frames. Meaning, they'll need tons of maintenance to keep airborne, and they won't have the upgraded flight and avionics of the newer models. They won't be able to get to Kyiv before they're targeted, then they'll be in the envelope of the S-400 batteries on the front lines.

@cosmoray9750 2 ай бұрын

Send Zelensky to Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

@paulparker8298 2 ай бұрын

Na you

@helenegan1079 2 ай бұрын

Zelensky dead man walking. The Ukrs will get him for what he did to Ukraine! If not the Russians. Russians took their time but got to Bandera in Germany. They also took out Trotsky in Mexico. He has a target on their back. Nowhere to hide!

@tinaforbes1059 2 ай бұрын

Obump-ma was suppose to close Gitmo during his terms in office, but decided not to . And the abused/violation of human rights carried on .

@markkierznowski6121 2 ай бұрын

GITMO is in Cuba. America still infests Cuba.

@HarrySmith-hr2iv 2 ай бұрын

In an international Court of Law Zelensky will claim he is insane. Or he was only obeying the orders that his Masters the Zionists gave him.

@karlm9584 2 ай бұрын

The problem with the f16s is finding western pilots willing to go up in them against Russian air defence

@pmp2559 2 ай бұрын

They’re out there, americans have an incredible amount of arrogance

@petermcgarrymusicandflying 2 ай бұрын

It won't be Uranian pilots - it will be NATO pilots but ssssh don't tell anyone

@user-zj1ss4fz9w 2 ай бұрын

Если это будут польские пилоты, то аэродромы Польши будут разбиты. Если вы к тому, что вылет будет от туда!

@fredo1070 2 ай бұрын

Drones, missiles and glide bombs make aircraft over the battlefield redundant. Those planes could only be used defensively to stop cruise missiles.

@giuliobrandone1479 2 ай бұрын

Huge respect for your analysis .. Greetings from Italia 🇮🇹

@oot007 2 ай бұрын

Great video as always. You were spot on about their counteroffensive last year and you are right about the impact of the F16 as well.

@QuattroSG 2 ай бұрын

I think considering how riled up Russia is now after the terror attack and how they (probably accurately) blame Ukraine/NATO for it, I don't think anything can stop Russia whether they send enough on time or not. The nature of the conflict changed dramatically in the past week or two.

@bjabbbjabb1286 2 ай бұрын

The problem is the air to air missiles Of Russia. They go much longer than NATOs.

@lazyupload 2 ай бұрын

The world has gone insane

@sixmillionisimpossible 2 ай бұрын

The fact there's still countries using the original export variant of the T-72, meanwhile there's almost nobody using the export variant of the Abrams or F-16, should tell you all you need to know. American MIC gear isn't built to be evergreen, it's built like everything in America. Their iPhones, their modern cars, their economy. All meant to look good in the honeymoon phase but then fall apart immediately after.

@robertplatte5700 2 ай бұрын

all style no substance, is that you are saying brother

@rpbajb 2 ай бұрын

Paper tiger.

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 2 ай бұрын

Iraq and Australia use the export variant of the M1A1 and Kuwayt and Saudi Arabia use the export version of the M1A2. Probably more would have if it weren't for Germany having sold off most of its Cold War Leo 2 stock for peanuts. And dozens of nations use variants of the F-16. It is almost the most produced Western jet fighter, after the F4 Phantom. You can argue about quality, my uncle who used to work in the RNLAF always said the US never sold us the really good stuff, but not that these weapons have not been commercially successful.

@sixmillionisimpossible 2 ай бұрын

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 coping NAFO poster spotted lmao. You play a children's game btw. That's what Warhammer is.

@sixmillionisimpossible 2 ай бұрын

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 NAFOID 😂

@trevorsutherland5263 2 ай бұрын

Especially with Russia having 24/7 overwatch on every base they can fly from

@joylarson9040 2 ай бұрын

What about France? They are angry about their colonies leaving them in Africa, and hate Russia 😮

@evitoonbundit2453 2 ай бұрын

F16 offered by Dutch PM Rutte to demonstrate his undying fealty to US hegemony and thus get the NATO job.

@alberto123iq 2 ай бұрын

Most dutch were sick and tired of his constant lying . Now he does everything to secure his new slave-job at NATO. He's despicable so fits right in

@winfriedbij684 2 ай бұрын

It shows how stupid many politicians are - they have no clue - it's only wishful thinking. Critics are ridiculed The rooster praises the cuckoo because it praises the rooster

@fredretteketet 16 күн бұрын

Plus 4 billion he promised to UA paying by our paid tax money😢

@PerceivedREALITY999 2 ай бұрын

Saying North Atlantic terrorist organization can defeat Russia is like saying biden can run up the stairs without stumbling

@GawrGurasBathTubPizza 2 ай бұрын

saying america and the west arent terrorist is like saying biden doesn't turn into a roomba on stage

@rock_ok 2 ай бұрын

well, i think they're sacrificing Ukraine for a longer war. other countries in that region are bunkering up and waiting for an opportunity. unless of course they made peace instead and made other methods like terrorism etc. go undercover.

@tinaforbes1059 2 ай бұрын

@@GawrGurasBathTubPizza Without head over arse action.

@_vancurtis 2 ай бұрын

Is this a spam bot or what? It produces dozens of similar messages across many channels, it's just everywhere.

@grahamhireme9283 2 ай бұрын

Na he’s just got a copy/paste fetish

@jasondelvaux3036 2 ай бұрын

Watched a great interview with Jacques Baud on The Duran. It really reinforces what Brian continually points out: The West/NATO only knows how to fight colonial wars. They don't have the right thinking to go up against Russia, either on the battlefield or in terms of industrial capacity. And because we're told in The West that everything Russia says are lies, we refuse to learn anything about our opponent. Therefore, we ascribe goals to Russia, which rarely has anything to do with their actual objectives. Victory under those self-imposed conditions is impossible.

@malcolmcurtis9786 2 ай бұрын

It’s all theatre. They had no intention of sending F16 to Ukraine as they would be caught out how useless the planes are. It’s been excuse after excuse from the start . F16s maybe good against builders pickups with a machine gun on the back as in Afghanistan,but when the enemy is equal if not better then that’s a different kettle of fish.👎👎👎🇬🇧

@thezone5840 2 ай бұрын

They wouldn't trust the F-16 solely against Iran, much less Russia. I've heard a guys Instagram account was deleted due him bringing up PROJECT VENOM. Seems like this would be a good test for that. Iron Man 2 with the drone mechs all over again ---NATORIZED

@liljasere 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mkuntil we get pictures or satellite images I’m calling bs like everything in this war from both sides

@malcolmcurtis9786 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk Pure theatre.👎👎🇬🇧

@iRelevant.47.blacklisted 2 ай бұрын

Agree. Likely a psyop to keep the Ukrs fighting on the front line.

@Gerdeo64 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mkyes, and not even true. Sad for you.

@ledlight1487 2 ай бұрын

This time the Russians won't forgive Romanians, like they did in WWII, I hope.

@user-bg3ng5td3u 2 ай бұрын

They won't make any difference

@buryitdeep 2 ай бұрын

The latest "Game changer!"

@sridharsangameswaran4332 2 ай бұрын

Why English language was not taught from 2014 to Ukraine armed forces ?

@meneedmorebrain 2 ай бұрын

Maybe it was at first, but they are currently at their third army, made up from people from the streets, so..... They are also super racist, anything but Ukrainian (now russian) is unacceptable.

@patriayvida6850 2 ай бұрын

Are those F-16s made by Boeing? 😂😂😂

@tevlex3405 2 ай бұрын

the training of the pilots can be significantly shortened, due to the russian air defense, the pilots do not need any landing training

@simisg2121 2 ай бұрын

lol, I’ve been saying this stuff the ENTIRE time. Now because it’s obvious they won’t win this is all I’m seeing now instead of twisting it the other way..

@Gerdeo64 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk😂

@Gerdeo64 2 ай бұрын

@@Mick-iv6mk😂

@christinecoughlan4699 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Brian .

@blueberrysalmon6712 2 ай бұрын

"Maybe f16 will just fly over from Romania and come back there after each operation". Ohhh boy.... where do i begin.....

@GETJUSTICE4U 2 ай бұрын

2:22 Q what is the real point of sending F 16 to be quickly destroyed. Clue: they cost an eye watering fortune to replace each one.

@stephendezouzsa 2 ай бұрын

These F16 won't work without an integrated air defence system in place which Ukraine won't have . It was the main reason why Iraq's Mig29 fighter jets where so ineffective during the first Gulf war

@janwong3705 2 ай бұрын

Lol who will think about poor, poor Lockheed Martin's stocks when this Wunderflieger also gets eaten up by the Bear...?

@pheonix-one 2 ай бұрын

Scott and other people say that they will pay for ‘foreign mercenaries’ like the ones operating the missiles.

@dammitdad 2 ай бұрын

How many hours of time are left on each airframe? What performance restrictions are imposed by cracks and weight-adding patch kits? These ancient machines come out of museums, spare parts and junk stores. These lightweight aircraft are lacking 50 years of advancement. What are they supposed to do anyway? Not dogfights, those are obsoleted by intelligent SAM. They can't carry heavy weapons because their airframe was designed for agility, not to carry weight.

@GMATveteran 2 ай бұрын

4:28 - "Does that sound like a good idea?" I literally lol'd at this comment. 😆😆

@rogerhudson9732 2 ай бұрын

Only this week the Ukrainian primary F-16 base they've built up (needs a longer runway than Soviet era jets) has been attacked in Western Ukraine, lots of damage shown in after attack photos. Getting Ukrainian military up to NATO standard is a joke.

@jayspik6498 2 ай бұрын

Russia 🇷🇺 just destroyed the Airbase from where theses aircraft where to operate so I don’t know what they were thinking or if they’ll ever even show up at all.

@AntonioRomero-te4cb 2 ай бұрын

We are all waiting for Russia to take off the kids gloves already

@justcalmdown1027 2 ай бұрын

How long does it take to train a squadron of diplomats? Will Ukraine ever face reality and negotiate?

@jimgreen701 2 ай бұрын

Thankyou for your work and time to explain all this information, everything you predicted has come to reality 👍💯

@pacificdragon1 2 ай бұрын

It wouldn’t surprise me if former US Air Force Pilots aren’t flying those F16.

@user-wj1xj9do1y 2 ай бұрын

I find it unlikely that an American pilot would sign up for a one-way kamikaze flight.

@pacificdragon1 2 ай бұрын

@@user-wj1xj9do1y I just don’t think Ukrainian pilots will be up to speed to fly F16’s into high threat combat airspace. The Government’s will sell it as a way to make a lot of money fast to the former Air Force pilots. These will be people who either just got out of the Air Force or these will be people who resign their commission in order to fly for Ukraine.

@condocord7544 2 ай бұрын

First rate journalism! We appreciate!!

@joaoMTcoelho 2 ай бұрын

This so called help looks more like a McHale's Navy plot.

@gordonmohr2268 2 ай бұрын

@davidbarrois3959 2 ай бұрын

The main question is where will they land and base them ...

@user-wj1xj9do1y 2 ай бұрын

They will only get to take off once. Landing training is the use of a parachute.

@sdinim8695 2 ай бұрын

This is the last game changer they know too.

@ronaldr9911 2 ай бұрын

more scrap metal

@NilodeRoock 2 ай бұрын

I've heard about an F-16 training site in Romania. Allegedly, the Netherlands is sending F16 planes and parts to that site.

@user-kf5jv7ut5j 2 ай бұрын

Greetings and good luck from Ireland.

@charles-iii6759 2 ай бұрын

How many American jet fighters were shot down in Vietnam--Jet fighters piloted by well-trained American pilots? The estimated number it is said to be somewhere around 2,251 aircraft. The F-16 is an excellent machine, but it was built 50 years ago, and the last upgrading to that aircraft was made, to the best of my knowledge, in 1993--31 years ego. According to sources, the United Sates Airforce don't purchase them anymore. Those Americans aircrafts in the Vietnam war were shot down by then much less technologically advanced anti-aircraft missiles. This is something to consider by the Ukrainian authority.

@tomaaron6187 2 ай бұрын

As someone who was in he military, I ‘know’ these jets are ridiculous. The infrastructure to support them is phenomenal. The irony is they will be a PR embarrassment.

@ahsimiksnabac6576 2 ай бұрын

surely, if these F-16s are going to be based, maintained and supplied in, say, Romania, that would definitely make those bases legit targets? if not, why not?

@fayyaznoor1962 2 ай бұрын

This training is a cover for real U.S pilots going into combat in Ukraine.

@saytami25 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Brian

@neptunizer 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for useful analysis.

@benkenobi292 2 ай бұрын

They could if they employed instant learning like in The Matrix. 😂

@skunkmasters4689 2 ай бұрын

Why would Russia not target the Romanian bases? If the F-16 takes off from there, doesn’t that then make it a legitimate target regardless of whether it’s in Romania or Ukraine I’d like to understand more about this question.