Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Rare inside look at F-16 fighter jet Ukraine believes is vital for defense" video.

  1. Career Viper fixer here who disagrees on the operational end of maintenance and support. Running foreign students through USAF tech school courses has been done since before the Air Force was a separate service. Any farm kid (those still exist in eastern Europe) can make a fine jet mech due to tactile familiarity with machinery. It's easy to retrain troops who worked on older birds (every senior maintainer in the early Viper maintenance community worked something else beforehand, I came off Phantom and Bronco) which required more mechanical adjustments and had complex, primitive avionics and comms. Before the USAF kept maintainers mostly on one airframe the diversity of experience IMO made better technicians. Any car mechanic can make a jet mech and many are both. I could teach a rock to work on one and all Ukraine needs is the equivalent of DEPLOYED US squadrons with the rest left inside NATO for safety. For example engine and avionics back shops could sublocate to Poland and be supported easily via existing NATO units and other resources. POL is old news for any armed force and quite easy to learn. Any fuel truck with an SPR hose can fuel one and connecting those is simple plumbing. POL for hydraulic oil and lubricants. is a simple task of ordering the correct NSN then having it shipped through the usual channels (Fedex, DHL and UPS make the DOD world go round). Fuel is ordinary tanker truck logistics not requiring military tankers so long as a pump etc is available at the receiving end. While the OVERALL feat of supporting an F-16 squadron is enormous like any fighter unit, the PIECES of that puzzle are refined over many decades and not difficult for any individual to perform which is of course the point. Most of those pieces can be managed from far, far away as the US does on deployments. Ukraine doesn't have to reinvent every wheel and perform every task. They do need to get good at a select few but tens of thousands of other humans did so easily with far less motivation. Today we have Zoom and other comms so a factory tech rep or maintainer from another air force can if desired talk a Ukrainian through troubleshooting including tricks and kinks not covered in job guides. Technical Order automation means any number of copies are instantly available (and no hapless airman has to A-page paper manuals).
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  2. Where did you work on or fly Warthogs?
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  3. How many years did you work on F-16s? I always enjoy hearing from fellow experts.
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  4. Then why didn't they win in weeks? Where is their sortie rate? Not that you shills know what that means. Russian missions over Ukraine are basically local flights in airspace they grew up in or near, yet no victory over a poor nation next door.
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  5.  @joshuapaul2022  Unlike primitive shills the US has many truely internet literate people who also happen to be good at pattern recognition. Your shilling backfires (you get paid so no problem on your end) because at this point all it does is provoke righteous hatred. When we think of sending weapons we think of you and yours on the receiving end, though most are actually in Indian call centers.
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  6. Their aircrew speak English which is the international language of pro-Western military aviation.
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  7. This is couch money for NATO. The US didn't notice over 15,000,000,000 a month during GWOT and most aid is also a high tech jobs program benefiting the US middle class. Bonus, it kills NeoSoviets so seethe harder and send more cannon fodder to the front.
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  8. Glavset shilling hard today. Remember the much more difficult defeat of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact by containment? I do. You LOST due to your own economic degeneracy and social incompetence while China succeeded. Russia became a poor backwater by the hands of its own people.
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  9. That's what's called a "false choice fallacy" and you are not an American so FOAD.
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  10. Are we supposed to be impresssed? I worked early and late F-16s and their advantage is compatibility with NATO munitions and their data link integration. Noobs dream of dogfights, a typical and contemptible childish fantasy. War is about putting warheads on foreheads and Russia has FAILED to produce air dominance next door. This is like US forces running out of steam at the Mexican border.
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