I was just thinking, “man, Ukraine just doesn’t have enough logistical problems, I hope they get a new aircraft.”
At this point, Sweden’s Grippen would be more useful.
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Well, yes and no. M2Ks are already configured to handle NATO munitions out of the box, which is actually a pretty meaningful benefit.
Not to mention: if they’re maintaining and repairing (and in the longer term, disassembling and cannibalizing worn or damaged airframes for parts), I honestly look forward to what the Ukrainian aerospace industry is gonna get up to once the war wraps up. Ukrainians have proven that they’ve got a lot of fascinating and pragmatic ideas in a lot of areas over the course of this war, and it’ll be really interesting to see how that pans out in peacetime under less dire circumstances. It could be game-changing in a lot of ways.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena, attended the 80th anniversary events in Normandy with President Joe Biden and European leaders who have supported Kyiv’s efforts in the war, now in its third year.
Overnight, Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery and a fuel depot in Russian border regions, officials in the targeted areas said Thursday, in Kyiv’s ongoing effort to disrupt the Kremlin’s war machine.
Although Russian forces might still try to advance, “now we can destroy their troops on the territory of Russia near the border of Kharkiv,” added Cherniev, deputy chairman of parliament’s National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee.
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia could provide long-range weapons to other countries so that they could strike Western targets.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said Putin’s comments amounted to “a quite significant shift in our foreign policy.”
Putin claimed that using some Western-supplied weapons involves military personnel of those countries controlling the missiles and selecting targets, and therefore he said that Moscow could take “asymmetrical” steps elsewhere in the world.
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