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Ukraine’s F-16 Ambitions Snarled by Language Barrier, Runways and Parts [1]

['Courtney Mcbride', 'Andrea Palasciano', 'Courtney Mcbride Andrea Palasciano']

Date: 2024-07-12  

This summer, Kyiv will finally get the F-16 fighter jets it’s been insisting it needs to repel Russia — but in far fewer numbers than it had hoped.

The move to send warplanes — a much hyped element of this week’s NATO summit in Washington — has been bedeviled by delays, questions around spare parts, and a language barrier between Ukrainian pilots and their foreign trainers, according to people familiar with the matter. Planners also worry that the country doesn’t have enough runways — and those it does have are vulnerable to Russian attacks.

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[1] Url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-12/ukraine-s-f-16-ambitions-snarled-by-language-barrier-runways-and-parts?embedded-checkout=true

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