‘It is all lining up’: Plan for Ukraine to finally start using F-16 jets this summer

While Ukraine is eager to get the planes in the sky, Justin Bronk, an aviation analyst with the Rusi thinktank, said the right time to deploy F-16s was a “risk-timeframe judgment call”. “I hope it will be made when they are tactically and operationally ready, pilots and ground crew, and not on the basis that ‘things are looking bad, we need a political win’,” he said in a recent podcast.