Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Why F-16s Could Be a Game Changer for Ukraine | WSJ" video.

  1. Flying is the easy part. Maintenance is going to be the bigger learning curve. Also, the old Migs can land anywhere and can have decentralized locations. F-16 needs a standard runway which is going to make their holding areas a big target for drone / missile attacks.
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  2.  @god-son-love  Yeah, it's called the internet. “F-16s do best on long, pristine runways. They could face difficulties on the rougher, former Soviet ones dispersed across Ukraine,” RAND Corp. analysts John Hoehn and William Courtney wrote in a blog post earlier this month. “To bring in Western aircraft, Ukraine might need to repave and potentially extend a number of runways, a process which Russia would likely detect. If only a few airfields were suitable and in known locations, focused Russian attacks could impede Ukrainian F-16s from flying,” they wrote. But “training maintenance personnel can take months or years, depending on the desired level of proficiency,” according to a March report on the possible F-16 transfers from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Even after undergoing up to 133 days of schooling, a US Air Force maintainer gains a year of on-the-job experience to become fully qualified, the CRS report says.
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  3.  @moderatelyapathetic3280  Likely, it was strategic and built with those specs. F-18 can do the same. F-18: https://youtu.be/VbROcRrf5b4
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  4.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Dude - you need to re-read what I wrote. I've seen a lone UA mig hiding / stationed off a normal road.
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