Comments by "Retrosicotte" (@Retrosicotte) on "Typhoons not the best fighter jet to send Ukraine, expert says" video.

  1. Poor choice. Very high maintenance, very well used airframes, very few around still working.
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  2. You don't "unlock" like that in this case. People here seem to not grasp how much GROUP INFRASTRUCTURE you need for a given platform in fast modern air. Ukraine will need to choose one jet and FOCUS on it, and that will best be an F-16.
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  3. Funny how you WHY DON'T WE NEGOTIATE types never actually say what you want the settlement to be. Almost like you're trying to avoid saying you hope Russia wins.
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  4. There aren't enough of them to supply fully, and a very small supply chain. Plus, they aren't integrated for HARM, which is a primary munition in this war.
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  5. That's really not how it works. We're training pilots in NATO flying, that can apply to any fast jet they get. They only have so many pilots ,focus on one they can maintain properly.
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  6. The Tornados are intensely hard to maintain, and are very 'well worn' by now, let alone they aren't sitting around. Again no reason to not just get an F-16 for it.
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  7. A-10 would be utterly useless compared to an F-16. It's worse in every way for Ukraine.
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  8. Not enough of either.
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  9. Except yes they are training them for ANY jet. You don't only train on the end jet to learn to fly. NATO flying is 90% agnostic to the platform. Process, tactics, kill-chain, joint sensor pickup, all sorts.
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  10. Nope.
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  11.  @pogo1140  It's rigged in a suboptimal way though. It can't use the full spectrum of HARM's ability. The F-16 can.
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