Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has reduced training time for F-16 pilots by almost three months
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has managed to reduce the training time for pilots on F-16 fighter jets by almost three months.
This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Serhii Melnyk in an interview with ArmyInform, Censor.NET reports.
This has been achieved by optimizing the process of obtaining a private pilot certificate by military students under the NATO DEEP program.
"The process of obtaining private pilot certificates by military students has been optimized, which reduces the time required to train pilots on F-16s by almost three months. This provides an important operational advantage in the air," he said.
F-16 in Ukraine
As a reminder, the first F-16s were handed over to Ukraine by the Netherlands. This was officially confirmed on October 6 during the visit of Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans to Ukraine.
On July 31, Bloomberg reported that Ukraine had received the first delivery of the F-16 fighter jets promised by the allies.
On December 7, it became known that Ukraine had received the second batch of F-16 fighter jets from Denmark.
