US to start training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets in October

The US will start training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets in Arizona in October, the Pentagon has said, to support Ukraine in the war against Russia. The United States will begin flight training for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets in October, the Pentagon has announced.

The training would begin after the pilots receive English-language training next month, a Pentagon spokesman Brig Gen Pat Ryder said on Thursday. The flight training would take place at the Morris air national guard base in Tucson, Arizona, he added.

Several pilots and dozens of aircraft maintenance crew would take the training, Ryder added.Netherlands […]

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