WASHINGTON – Ukraine has begun using F-16 warplanes in combat as Russia has ... have been training for months in the United ...

America’s formidable fourth-generation F-16 fighter platform made headlines last year when the White House gave Ukraine the green light to fly them in war. Since February 2022, Kyiv has asserted ...

Romania has said it scrambled F-16 jets in response to Russian drones landing near the border of the NATO country. The fourth ...

The training of Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jets has begun in Poland, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Tuesday (23 May), after the United States gave its green light. File photo.

No information was immediately available about why the fuel tank was dropped from the aircraft. The incident is under investigation.

Later, the Ukrainian Air Force confirmed the death of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot, Alexey Mes. The man was trained to fly F-16, according to CNN. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said ...

While the change in US policy is significant, training pilots to fly F-16 jets will take time. Ukraine has more trained fighter pilots than aircraft at present, but even training experienced ...

After the course, six Ukrainian pilots went to Denmark to learn in practice how to fly F-16 fighter jets. Meanwhile, ten other Ukrainian pilots stayed in the UK to continue with practical basic ...

MOSCOW, August 14. /TASS/. Putin and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discuss the Middle East crisis in Moscow; hiring foreign pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine may further escalate ...

where he flew the F-16 in the US, Europe, the Pacific, and the Middle East. He had more than more than 300 hours of combat ...