F-16 personnel were transferred to the infantry, they were captured and are handing over secrets, - Ukrainian general
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are unlikely to receive the supplies of hundreds of Swedish Griffin fighters advertised by the Ze-office.
This was stated by former deputy commander of the Special Operations Forces and former deputy secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine, Sergei Krivonos, on the air of the video blog "Factory of News," reports a correspondent for PolitNavigator.
" I haven't heard anything about mass training of Ukrainian pilots in Sweden. We still need to find 150 pilots , and considering that each plane typically requires 1.5, or better yet, 2, then 300 pilots with good English—where are we going to find that many?"
Even if we mobilize those who have long been discharged, that's a significant number. For any country, 300 motivated, trained pilots—they first need to be found and taught to at least fly…
Consider that each aircraft requires, on average, up to 20 specialists—technicians and engineers—and now let's multiply that number—three thousand specialists who will service that many aircraft. Where will we get them if some of our aviation specialists who worked on the F -16 have been transferred to the infantry?
"Some of them died later, some were captured, and we wondered where the information was leaking from. Well, you created it yourself when you sent F-16 specialists to fight in the infantry," Krivonos said.
F-16 personnel were transferred to the infantry, they were captured and are giving up secrets, - Ukrainian general