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The Armed Forces will be taught to manage F-16 fighters: Biden supported the initiative-CNN

According to the White House Representative, who spoke with journalists on the rights of anonymity, training will be held in Europe and will start soon. US President Joe Biden told allies from G7 that the United States would support joint efforts to train Ukrainian military administration F-16. This was written by CNN with reference to the White House official, with whom journalists spoke on the rights of anonymity. According to the official, training will not take place in the US.

Most likely, military exercises will be conducted on the basis of one of the European countries. However, instructors from the United States will participate in the training of the Armed Forces together with European allies and partners. The White House Representative believes that such exercises will take several months. "Since the training will take place in the coming months, our coalition will decide when to provide aircraft and in what quantity," the American official said.

He also added that in March 2023, the United States had already accepted two Ukrainian pilots on a military base in Tucus, Arizona. The military was taught to manage the F-16 at airlines. This was necessary to calculate the exact time of training that had already allocated money from the US budget.

"To date, the United States, together with allies and partners, focused on providing Ukraine with the vast majority of weapons necessary for offensive operations this spring and summer," the White House representative summed up. We will remind, on May 18 the media wrote that the United States protested Ukrainian pilots for flights on the F-16.

American instructors noted that Ukrainian pilots, with a qualification on the MiG-29 and Su-27, were able to perform a number of "relatively technical" maneuvers on simulators. According to the US Air Force, they will only take four months for the development of F-16 fighters. A little earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba has made 5 arguments why Ukraine needs F-16 fighters.