UK could train new Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s 'within two years'

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A former Royal Air Force Commander has told Forces News Ukrainian pilots could be trained on the F-16 fighter jet for "life or death" flying in two years.

Air Marshal (Ret'd) Greg Bagwell said the training could be accomplished in the two-year time frame "if you really pressed it" for a youngster "never having flown before".

The F-16 is the jet Ukraine wants and the one many think the country will eventually receive, but after a recent trip to the UK, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to Kyiv without any commitments to supply the jets.

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