{"id":41090,"date":"2024-08-01T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41090"},"modified":"2024-08-01T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:11:20","slug":"f-16-jets-no-silver-bullet-for-ukraine-in-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41090","title":{"rendered":"F-16 jets no silver bullet for Ukraine in war with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KYIV, Aug 1 &#8211; Ukraine has received a first batch of U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets to help it fight Russian forces, Lithuania&#8217;s foreign minister and a U.S. official have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-receives-small-number-f-16-jets-bloomberg-reports-citing-sources-2024-07-31\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The long-awaited arrival is a milestone for Ukraine, which has not publicly commented on it for now. The lengthy process to procure the U.S.-designed aircraft and train Ukrainian pilots to fly them has frustrated Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia has had time to prepare defences to try to nullify the F-16s&#8217; impact, and Ukraine has had to survive with a depleted air force a fraction of the size and sophistication of its enemy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some facts about how the F-16s may help Ukraine and what obstacles still lie in the way of effective deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) KYIV, Aug 1 &#8211; Ukraine has received a first batch of U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets to help it fight Russian forces, Lithuania&#8217;s foreign minister and a U.S. official have\u00a0said. The long-awaited arrival is a milestone for Ukraine, which has not publicly commented on it for now. The lengthy process to procure the U.S.-designed aircraft and train Ukrainian pilots to fly them has frustrated Kyiv. Russia has had time to prepare defences to try to nullify the F-16s&#8217; impact, and Ukraine has had to survive with a depleted air force a fraction of the size and sophistication of its enemy&#8217;s&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41093,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090\/revisions\/41093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}