The Dutch defense minister says the US has approved the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

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7. Oh sure

I know I have been posting on and off about this from back when the subject was first broached. One of the biggest issues was that all the instruments were in English. So right there, that would narrow the number of pilots who could be selected to train on it because it would be too time and resource intensive to translate everything in the cockpit.

These pilots were originally trained on MiGs, so that is their starting point. They know a pilot's "basics" but they would have to be trained on all the nuances of the F-16. I had looked at a couple training videos on the F-16 during the early spring and just found this video that was uploaded today by NBC -

Even with the 2 generals saying outright that the pilots "need to be proficient in English", that fact just blew over the reporter's head.