Military to begin training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets

Minister of Defense for the Netherlands, Kajsa Ollongren, joins Morning Joe to discuss giving F-16 jets to Ukraine along with Denmark and Norway along with the U.S. Military training Ukrainian pilots on using the jets.

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Military to begin training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets

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  1. 2
    Mark Hugo

    Thing I knew they were already training at least on simulators. I don't think any of them are going to have any trouble with the real thing let's get them fuel let's get them launch sites and into the air. Where they can teach the Orcs what real air superiority is about

  2. 3
    SonnyNorfolk

    If we learnt anything from WW2, regardless of Ukraine not being part of NATO, we should be in there at least imposing no fly zones. If the USA weren;t so weak at the end of WW2 Stalin would have been next and we could have not had the cold war, Vietnam, North Korea, Iraq, and no problems with China, no-one should be having anything manufactured there which is another joke and cheap crap will have to be paid for in blood one day, and surely there are some retired F16 pilots out there that could be defending Ukraine now, there were plenty of russian pilots in Vietnam and Korea.

  3. 4
    Vladimir from Ukraine

    Ukrainian military pilots don't speak English well. Learning language takes a lot of time. I could say it takes even more than new type plane pilot retraining process. It takes sense to retrain Ukrainian civil pilots who speak English well.

  4. 5
    Kevin El

    Is anyone in this room worried that we are sliding headlong into World War Three? Why is no one talking about peace?
    Why?

  5. 8
    Stuart Gooding

    Yes there is money ..but not as much as people think…alot is old tank and planes equal to the amount given…most have sat on air bases .and storage for 15 years….its no good them gathering dust …so make use of them….

  6. 9
    James Su

    The Ukraine-Russia war is not an unprovoked war.

    It is US (the world No.1 war mongering nation & No.1 regional conflicts instigator) leading NATO, the Western military alliances, through continuous expansion of boundaries (disregarding Russia's many protests) up to the borders of Russia; and with the setting up of many US/NATO military bases in many European countries with bombers, ballistic missiles, even nukes pointing towards Russia.

    These NATO intimidating actions surely threatened Russia national security that instigated & provoked Russia to take such military operation.

    It is a fact that this is a Nato proxy war with Russia – With NATO pouring hundreds billions USD & thousands and thousands military hardwares, various warfare training, military intelligences, communications and directives to Ukraine.

    Yes, the Ukrainian are brave but their President is so foolish & has become a barking dog for US led NATO. Ukraine is just a NATO pawn to fight Russia.

    Tens of thousands Ukrainians have died & more will die daily, millions are suffering – lost their loved ones, became homeless, jobless, physically injured & psychological scarred, lives turned upside down, ……

  7. 14
    Happy

    About time the 0:57 US did this. They should have given Ukraine the planes at the start and Russia would be defeated and removed from Ukraine. Why wait until all the citizens are killed. Why did NATO not do more at the beginning of Russias invasion at the beginning of Russias invasion of Ukraine

  8. 20
    Maxi Car

    I WILL ALWAYS REPEAT THE SAME THING, ALL OF THIS MAY BE TRUE OR NOT, OR AN INTERMEDIATE, ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE UKRAINIAN ATTACKS IN CRIMEA.

    ALSO THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT

    BECAUSE RUSSIA REPLACES THE NAVAL DOME IN CRIMEA WITH A SWING OF THE DOME, EVEN 10 TIMES IN A ROW

    THE SUBMARINE AND OTHER VESSELS ARE GOOD TARGETS, BUT THE SAME, FOR EACH SHIP, RUSSIA CAN HIT 10 TIMES IN A ROW AND THEY ARE ALL IN NOTHING

    ALL THIS DOES NOT INFLUENCE OR STOP THE LOGISTICAL FLOW AT ALL, NOT EVEN 1%

    WHAT THE UKRAINIANS SHOULD DO IS ANOTHER THING, IS DESTROY THE RUSSIA CRIMEA BRIDGE AND THE DONBAS TRAINS, WITH THAT STOPPING 90 OR 95% OF THE LOGISTICAL FLOW

    IT MEANS THAT WITHIN A FEW DAYS OF CARRYING OUT THIS, THE ONLY WAY FOR THE RUSSIANS TO FIGHT WILL BE BY THROWING STONES OR BUTTONS FROM THEIR UNIFORM OR POOP LIKE A CERTAIN MONKEY DOES.

    THE SUCCESS WILL NOT BE BY CARRYING ABRAMS TANKS OR ANY KIND, BUT THE SUCCESS WILL BE BY GIVING MISSILES TO THOSE TARGETS, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OR OTHER COUNTRIES MUST DELIVER THEM, OR THE UKRAINIANS MANUFACTURE THEM, WHICH IS TOGETHER.

    WHAT HAPPENS THAT THE UKRAS DON'T DO THAT? THIS IS TOO OBVIOUS EVEN A SILLY GUY LIKE ME KNOWS IT,

  9. 21
    ACTION AUTO

    Biden is using Ukraine as a pawn and no more. Has gotten a entire generation of Ukrainians killed and that is still not enough as he pitches the same lies over and over

  10. 22
    JTMaster

    I feel like this is deja vu all over again. I saw this same announcement 3 months ago, 2 months ago, and last month. Are they actually gonna start or are we going to see another news segment next month around Halloween where they will say that the training is about to begin?

  11. 26
    Matt26

    Great targets for Russian pilots , like shooting ducks in a barrel!! Who cares how much the taxpayers will have to sacrifice for this foolishness.

  12. 30
    Steve Stoll

    So in short the US is wasting time and funds training pilots that will in all actuality most likely be dead within a matter of weeks of entering combat.

  13. 32
    Red Alert

    This is proceeding at a pace resembling the US military response to the hijacked planes on September 11th. Are the pilots perhaps being trained to take off very slowly then eventually fly out over the sea where there are no enemy planes for them to engage with?

  14. 33
    Operator 9

    None of the people who support ukraine have any clue. Their hopes are always entirely placed on the promise of the next wonder weapon and cant see the ground in front of them and refuse to take anything into account that they dont like.

    This war is going to be a poetic justice end to the 'rules based order.'

  15. 34
    mc_comments

    Ukraine has never had a realistic chance of winning this war.

    Stoltenberg just admitted Russia's been warning for decades about wrecking Ukraine if NATO kept pushing it for membership. That slip of the tongue debunks the lie that this war was "unprovoked." NATO knew if they kept pushing Ukraine towards a hostile path with Russia, that Russia would attack first.

    This isn't about saving Ukraine at all. NATO is using Ukrainians as pawns to get at Russia. Neo-cons even blatantly argue it's the best investment; to hurt Russia.

    Zelensky is a fool for not having accepted peace during the Istanbul peace agreement, back in March of 2022. You can thank Boris Johnson for sabotaging that deal. NATO has no interest in peace.

    Biden promised "no more endless wars"… where's the end of this one, Joe?

    The only winner here is the military industrial complex. Biggest loser is Ukraine.

    "WAR IS PEACE"

  16. 37
    Marcus Franconium

    One major problem most dont speak english or have the english proficiency in military english Jargon . Out of the qualified pilots only a handful is ready to train the other english speakers need a course in aviation english and terminology , the rest has to learn english from scratch .

  17. 38
    MarcasswellbMD

    The people they are training are already piolet's I am sure for the most part so it's more of a communication issue more than a training issue….

  18. 40
    Paul Van Obberghen

    What? Now? October 2023? Why is it that WE keep being ONE year late at helping Ukraine? Do we REALLY want Ukraine to win? Short answer: no. Long answer: NO! Stop telling us lies. We do NOT want Ukraine to win. We just want Ukraine to loose, quietly, 2 years from now when everybody will be looking elsewhere.

  19. 43
    Trevor Sutherland

    I can assure you, by this time next year, there will be nowhere in Ukraine to base these planes, as there will be no "Ukraine" as we know it today. They'll have to fly from Poland to bomb the territory we refer to as "Ukraine"

  20. 44
    Bruce Radz

    Isn't this old news. I thought the US was training pilots a year ago. And then we heard the same thing six months ago. Now it's the same story. Round and round the story goes, when is it true, nobody knows….

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