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...But talks between the US and UAE over the sale of F-35s have since stalled, with Washington worried about sensitive information being leaked to China, and Abu Dhabi frustrated by restrictions on the jets...
...light to the transfer of F-16s from other powers....
...Not only does the US guarantee that Israel will at all times have more advanced weapons — such as the F-35 fighter jet — than its neighbours, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, it pays billions more each...
...The administration is also moving ahead with the sale to Israel of $18bn worth of weapons, including F-15 fighter jets, over the next five years — one of the largest US arms deals with its ally....
...The US will train Ukrainian pilots in Arizona this year to fly F-16 fighter jets, the Pentagon said on Thursday....
...Denmark began training eight Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s earlier this week....
...The US will transfer F-16s to Turkey, its national security adviser said on Tuesday, hours after Turkish president Recep Tayep Erdoğan agreed to drop his veto on Sweden joining Nato....
...Lloyd Austin, US defence secretary, announced on Wednesday that two US F-15 fighter jets had conducted “a self-defence strike” on a weapons storage facility in eastern Syria in response to attacks on US...
...A former F-16 pilot who earned the call sign “Swamp Thing” after he ejected into the Florida Everglades when his plane was struck by lightning takes over as Joe Biden’s chief military adviser on Sunday....
...Two American F-16s carried out the strikes on Friday morning. “We do not seek to widen the conflict nor escalate it,” said a senior US defence official....
...Biden first offered support to the idea of sending F-16s last year after Finland and Sweden applied to join Nato....
...Read more on the F-16 plan here...
...The next step is an American ‘yes’ on actually making use of the F-16s in combat by Ukrainian fighter pilots . . . It’s a step-by-step approach.”...
...“The view of our military commanders is that the notion that F-16s would play a decisive role in this counteroffensive given that fundamental reality . . ....
...Parallel discussions were also held with US president Joe Biden over Turkey’s plans to complete a multibillion-dollar deal to buy F-16 fighter jets, which has been held up in Congress....
...The US is unlikely to provide its own F-16s to Kyiv....
...A coalition of allies is expected to announce the start of training for Ukrainian pilots in US-made F-16 fighter jets, the officials said....
...Erdoğan will say: ‘No, I want the Congress to take the first step and greenlight the F-16s and then I’ll move forward’,” he said....
...Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said that giving Ukraine F-16 fighter jets is currently “not a wise use of resources.”...
...Those included a presentation about corrosion problems affecting Australian F-35s and an artillery manual “carried by command post officers for each battery”....
...He may push for concessions from the US, perhaps on Ankara’s plan to modernise its fleet of F-16 fighter jets that has been held up by Congress....
...Several European countries have F-16s, but sending those to Ukraine would also require US approval....
...Asked by reporters on Monday whether the US would provide F-16 jets to Ukraine, Biden simply responded: “No.”...
...Warsaw has 28 MiG-29s in its air force and plans to phase them out with future deliveries of US F-35s and South Korean FA-50s. Slovakia has about a dozen MiG-29s....
...That’s not true and we don’t want to feed into that by giving them things to point at like F-16s that could be used in Russia.”...
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