Perhaps it is time for the Country of Ukraine to start a GoFundMe. Maybe a YouTube channel. It is time to ditch their non-profit structure and become a profit driven war beggar is what I'm thinking.

And thermonuclear long-range warheads.

And more bait bots.

Imagine having to fight for democracy with your own blood instead of taking it for granted and ridiculing those who desperately want it

I live in North Korea

I need 1 million dollars

wouldn't it be better for them to have modernized mig 29? since that's what they've been using and familiar with?

though i guess there might not be any available for them

They have those already and they’re getting more, but the issue is the radar on a”modernized” MiG-29 is still not as good as a Su-35 or any American F-Series jet. A MiG-29 doesn’t have the range to take out a MiG-31 traveling at Mach 2.8 at 80,000ft firing R-77M and R-37M hypersonic missiles. The Russians have scored some VERY long distance kills with the MiG-31. They need the American AMRAAM.

Not many, and the MiG-29 is still going to be a pile of shit, regardless of how modernized it is.

Ukraine wants a platform that can utilize the SDB (small diameter bomb), JDAM, and HARM (high speed anti-radiation missile) to start pushing Russia back, specifically the SDB and HARM since their HIMARS are already using GLSDBs (SDB with a M26 rocket motor attached to them for ground launches)

Modernized MiG-29s are still going to have to hack on those weapons, which won't operate as effectively as they will on a platform they're natively coded for, such as the F-16.

Also, MiG-29s are notorious for shit engines with absurdly short lifespans (lifespan of them is shorter than even just the mean time between rebuilds of an F-16's engine), which actually allows the F-16 to operate with a far greater availability rating, which means more F-16s in the air lol

well, i hope ukraine has enough trained f16 pilots. best case scenario they started training 8 years ago when NATO countries started to assist.

Their pilots are already rated for single engine and twin engine jet aircraft. It's simply a matter of becoming rated for the new aircraft, known as "B Course". That's around only 6 months. Granted, more mission training usually occurs after that, but Ukrainian pilots could be qualified on the F-16 in 6 months or less.

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Sorry about your luck

8 years ago Ukraine was under arms embargo from Western countries. They thought supplying arms to Ukraine will provoke Putin to attack lol.

Perhaps it is time for you to stop being a douche bag

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Let’s wobble over to the F-16 tree and pick as many as needed.