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

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11. Exactly. The metric thing is a big issue

Hell... as a retired labby, I had to go back and forth between all kinds of systems of units all the time.

I think for "maintenance", they are surrounded by NATO countries that have F-16s (the closest probably being Poland). So it would logistically be a little easier to bring in crews (on contract if necessary) from there.

From what I understand, there were recommendations bandied about by our NATO allies of them providing their F-16s to Ukraine and then the U.S. "back fills" to replace. At least in that case, the jets would have already been flown/tested/burned in/maintained/tweaked vs something right off the assembly line.

One of the articles I had looked at mentioned that there were 20 Ukrainians identified who had some English proficiency and they could be brought up to speed (over time obviously) to join in.