{"id":2012160,"date":"2023-08-25T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-pilots-set-to-receive-f-16-training-after-biden-waffled-for-a-year\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:48:19","slug":"ukrainian-pilots-set-to-receive-f-16-training-after-biden-waffled-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-pilots-set-to-receive-f-16-training-after-biden-waffled-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian pilots to finally receive F-16 training after year-long delay by Biden."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukrainian-pilots-set-to-receive-f-16-training-after-biden-waffled-for-a-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The United States to Provide Flight Training for Ukrainian Pilots on F-16\u2063 Fighter Jets<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Pentagon announced on\u2062 Thursday that\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teen-pilot-begins-trek-to-become-youngest-woman-to-fly-around-the-world\/\" title=\"Teen pilot begins trek to become youngest woman to fly around the world\">flight training<\/a> for Ukrainian\u200d pilots on F-16\u2064 fighter\u2062 jets will commence in October. This development, however, \u200dfaced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-pilots-set-to-receive-f-16-training-after-biden-waffled-for-a-year\/\" title=\"Ukrainian pilots to finally receive F-16 training after year-long delay by Biden.\">year-long delay \u200ddue<\/a> to President Joe Biden&#8217;s approval\u2063 process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u2063 training\u2063 will \u200bbegin after the pilots receive English language training next month, according to Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder. The flight training itself \u2063will take place in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Ryder also mentioned that several pilots and dozens of\u2062 aircraft maintenance crew will participate in the training.<\/p>\n<p>In May, President Biden endorsed the training programs for \u2062Ukrainian pilots on F-16s, \u2062after initially rejecting Ukraine&#8217;s requests for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kushner-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize\/\" title=\"Kushner Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize\">fighter jets<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-seen-cowering-behind-the-police-last-night-in-dc-after-being-confronted-by-the-proud-boys\/\" title=\"Antifa Seen Cowering Behind the Police Last Night in DC After Being Confronted by the Proud Boys\">past year<\/a>. The \u2063decision was seen as a significant step\u200b in strengthening \u200dUkraine&#8217;s air\u200b defenses and supporting \u2064its counteroffensive \u2063against Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark and\u2062 the Netherlands have recently pledged to donate F-16s to Ukraine, fulfilling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">long-standing<\/a> \u2063wish of the country. Norway&#8217;s prime minister also announced \u2062that his \u2064country\u2062 would \u200cprovide F-16s to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark has already started training eight Ukrainian pilots in flying \u2064F-16s. They have arrived at the Danish military air base in Skrydstrup, along \u200bwith \u200c65 personnel who \u200dwill be trained in maintaining and servicing the jets.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ukraine recently stated that it would not be able to operate U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets during the\u200d upcoming \u200dautumn and winter.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr\u200b Zelenskiy has \u2064repeatedly urged Western allies to \u200dsupply F-16s, as he believes it would signal an end to Russia&#8217;s\u200b invasion and lead to its defeat.<\/p>\n<p>While the West expresses its desire\u2063 to\u2064 assist Ukraine in defeating Russia, \u2064it has emphasized\u2063 that it does not want\u2064 to provoke a direct confrontation between the U.S.-backed NATO military alliance and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart; editing by Chris Reese and \u200bJonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>place at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona and is part of a broader effort to enhance Ukraine&#8217;s defense capabilities. The delay in approval has raised concerns about the Biden administration&#8217;s commitment to supporting Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia. However, the Pentagon assures that the training will proceed as planned, strengthening the partnership between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2012161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}