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High Performance Catamaran Racing

An F16 catamaran is a must have wind toy in the quiver.

If you are a serious trophy vacuuming racer or just a weekend warrior you need an F16. There’s a plethora of regattas to race at – check the events page. Apart from the growing F16 fleet, you can go toe to toe with the bigger F18s or foiling with the Nacra 17s.

If you kite, windsurf, sail big boats, race in a fleet of dinghies you need to have an F16. Its the go-to craft when the conditions are not perfect for kiteboarding or windsurfing or when you are bored with going slow. You can plan your sailing day and no matter the conditions you will be richly rewarded.

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Having fun is always better when you have someone to share it with. Sailing an F16 with someone else is just a wonderful way to spend time together, to share and develop a common interest. That person may be a friend, prospective lover or kids. To teach someone to sail on such a brilliant craft is most rewarding (that includes yourself), to then watch them pass that knowledge on and teach their mates and ultimately sail against you is truly what empowering future generations is all about.

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Some days though, you want to be alone, some days you are unable to rustle enthusiasm in the kid, wife or buddy. The F16 will always be there for you. The F16 is a great single-hander, perfect for blasting around at 18 knots on virtually any day. Go racing, go offshore, just burn up and down the lake – Bliss!

You will be able to right the boat alone when your desire outstrips your talent or experience.

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So the kids want a sailboat, they are expensive things sailboats, especially cool fast catamarans. Do you want to be the guy dragging the kids to regattas and sitting watching them have all the fun? Get on a F16 and join in with them. The F16 is a great youth boat for kids to learn, develop on and race competitively. When the kids are done Mum and Dad can get on the twin hulled rocket and go for a romantic sail across the lake.

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Do not be fooled by the F16s diminutive stature. It is a full blown race weapon. We combine F16 and the F18 classes at regattas and fleets of 25+ boats are not uncommon. So although you will need to sail the guts out of your F16 to beat the F18s, the spirit of competition and regatta schedule is full on!

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The foiling craze has given us so many options, SUPs, Kites, Wind Foils (windsurfer), Foiling Moths, Foiling A Class, N 17s, N20 FCS, Whisper, Phantom……. Which one do you choose? Which one on which day? Most of us have issues standing on the beach just deciding the right kite size! The mind boggles.

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Then the foiling F16 arrived. A whole lot lighter than a Nacra 17 and able to sail single handed or with a buddy. Its light enough to chuck around the boat park alone and pull up the ramp, even load on the trailer alone. Throw in the straight dagger boards and you can go racing with the existing F16s and F18s. – seems a logical choice.

F16 specs in a nutshell: 5m/16ft Long, 2.5m Wide, 123kg minimum weight.

F16 is a versatile racing, teaching and rip around sailcraft. The people who own them love them.

Contact us if you are interested in getting involved with the F16 gang. We’d love you to come play and can help you find a good place to sail from. There are a number of clubs where you can leave your boat, mast up and ready to go in 20 minutes for a sneaky weekday session.

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The standard in Formula 16 sailing. Recreational or highly competitive. The carbon stepping stone.

The Nacra F16 Carbon offers everything race teams look for in a mature racing cat and more. It is the preferred choice for lightweight crews of all ages and is suitable for both double-handed and single-handed sailing.

The boat comes in a full Class approved configuration as standard. But you can easily switch to semi-foiling performance. If you wish to take your F16 even further, there are several exciting options available.

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ALWAYS BE ONE STEP AHEAD

The Formula 16 Class used to be an assembly of ‘homemade’ boats, but ever since World Sailing (ISAF back then) recognized the Class as official in 2010, it matured quickly. From the beginning, Nacra Sailing was convinced that Formula 16 sailing will grow and rise to new heights and so we’ve decided to make a dedicated Class boat. Together with the legendary engineers from

Morelli&Melvin we’ve designed a boat that has become the standard for almost every type of sailor – from the recreational solo-sailor to competitive teams searching for the cutting edge. And of course, it fits perfectly into the Olympic pathway: The Nacra F16 Carbon is the perfect steppingstone from youth to full Olympic sailing.

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The racer for sailors with attitude. It is perfect for lightweight single or double crews of all ages. Designed to put sailors in control, the Nacra F16 Carbon is loads of fun to sail, both in racing and touring mode. A very rigid platform Although Formula 16 Class regulations do not yet allow Decksweeper sails, Nacra has made them available anyway. And in maybe the biggest upgrade yet, the F16 ‘s sails are now constructed of Endumax®  – one of the strongest and lightest cloth materials to date.

Superstrong lightweight carbon components give the Nacra F16 Carbon its name. With options such as full carbon mast, boom, spinnaker pole and tiller tie bar, your F16 can be as light as you wish it to be.

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NEW MATERIAL Stronger than steel, light as a feather.  The all-new sails made by Olympic supplier Performance Sails are now made of Endumax® , a revolutionary aramid film that is incredibly strong and light. In fact, its strength-to-weight ratio is the highest available on the market. Its unique physical and chemical structure give Endumax® incredible performance, a very high resistance against tearing and other damages, and against UV-rays. Your Endumax® sails will take your F16 to the next level, no matter the circumstances.

The strength of Endumax® sails shows when sailing competitively.

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You can customize your Nacra F16 Carbon with multiple accessories, upgrades and additions to make your catamaran truly yours.

The F16 class fosters a sense of a community among competitive and social racers. The class aims to work closely with the other formula classes to create a great environment for all sailors. It is both an open class (handicap) and a class racer. In addition to competitive sailing, recreational sailing is an important aspect of the class. These three scenes fully complement each other and none impedes the full exploitation of the other. The F16 class looks forward to welcoming new F16 sailors to their community, no matter what type of sailor you are.

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Morrelli/Melvin already proved to be a successful combination with NACRA with several earlier designs such as the NACRA Playcat (1995), NACRA Inter F18(1995), NACRA F18 Infusion(2005) & The NACRA F20 Carbon(2009). Both F18’s designed by Morrelli/Melvin became World Champion in the F18 class numerous times, the F20 Carbon is proving to be a true racing machine sailed by the more heavier sailors and winning events on line honors and handicap. Morrelli/Melvin is widely involved in the latest America’s cup designs and always on top of what knowledge is available to implement in new designs such as this NACRA 16.  

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In 2017 the VIPER received a face lift. The Underwater shape stayed the same, but the foredeck received some new Sporty lines - see more  here

The Goodall VIPER is the versatile Sports Car that can be sailed either 1 or 2 up. By simply leaving the jib off, sailors have the ability to sail and race if their crew is not available.

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With over 30 years of catamaran design experience and the latest in design software, the VIPER was designed for sailor teams who were too light for the F18 or wanted the versatility of solo sailing.

Ideal for mixed or youth teams, the VIPER is light and responsive in every aspect and this will give you the speed and excitement usually reserved for the bigger boats of the fleet - and you’ll beat them across the line in most cases too.

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Its Epoxy construction makes for a durable, long-lasting boat and EVA deck grip means you and your crew will move with confidence around the platform.

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Can America’s Aging, But Mighty F-16 Overpower One of Russia’s Most Advanced Fighters?

As Ukrainian-piloted F-16s prepare to duel against Russian Su-35s, this will be a clash between Western and Russian visions of what a fighter should look like.

This will be more than a clash of fighters. It will be a battle of philosophies between the Russian conception of fighters optimized for air combat, versus the Western conception of jets equally adept at air-to-air and air-to-ground combat.

It’s also a battle between old and new. The F-16s that Ukraine will receive were designed in the 1970s, though heavily upgraded over the years. Nonetheless, desperate to replace its dwindling fleet of Soviet-era Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters, Ukraine will be glad to receive 45 or more pre-owned F-16s from Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway, who are replacing their Falcons with F-35 stealth fighters. With Ukrainian pilots currently being trained in the U.S. and other nations, the first Ukrainian-piloted F-16s may fly this summer.

✈️ F-16 vs. Su-35: By the Numbers

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• Primary job: multi-role air-to-air and air-to-ground fighter

• Wingspan: 32 feet, 8 inches

• Length: 49 feet, 5 inches

• Height: 16 feet

• Weight: 19,700 pounds without fuel

• Speed: 1,500 MPH (Mach 2 at altitude)

• Combat range (F-16A/B): 575 miles  

• Cost: $63 million for latest F-16V model

• Primary job: multi-role air-to-air and air-to-ground fighter

• Wingspan: 50 feet, 2 inches

• Length: 71 feet, 10 inches

• Height: 19 feet, 4 inches

• Weight: 41,888 without fuel

• Top speed: 1,500 MPH (Mach 2.25 at altitude)

• Combat range: approx. 990 miles

• Cost: $85 million (estimated)

The Su-35 made its combat debut during Russia’s 2016 intervention in Syria. But the war in Ukraine marks the Su-35’s real baptism of fire against an opponent equipped with modern fighters and anti-aircraft missiles.

Comparing the F-16 to the Su-35 isn’t easy. The F-16 is a fourth-generation aircraft that entered service in the late 1970s alongside the F-15 Eagle and the Soviet Su-27 and MiG-29 . The Su-35 is considered part of generation 4.5, which are upgraded fourth-generation fighters that were introduced in the late 1990s, including the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, Typhoon, Rafale, and MiG-35.

“This is not a knock on the F-16,” Brynn Tannehill, a defense expert and former U.S. Navy aviator, tells Popular Mechanics , “but it was designed back in the 1970s.”

Either way, the stakes could not be higher. While American- and Russian-made fighters have been dueling since the Korean War in 1950, the upcoming clash in the skies over Ukraine will be vital. Russian airpower has performed poorly despite numerical and technological superiority in Ukraine, yet recent airstrikes using glide bombs have devastated Ukrainian defenses. To stop the Russian bombardment and launch a successful counteroffensive, Ukraine will need to at least contest control of the air, and ideally be able to launch airstrikes of its own.

// Viper and Flanker //

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The F-16 Fighting Falcon (commonly known as the “Viper,” and occasionally as the “Lawn Dart”) was conceived out of embarrassment. During the Vietnam War, the world’s most powerful nation had failed to overwhelm North Vietnam’s small air force. One reason was that the U.S. military was using aircraft such as the F-4 Phantom —a powerful, but heavy fighter originally designed to intercept Soviet bombers rather than dogfight nimble MiGs.

This spurred a controversial group of innovators—the legendary “fighter mafia” —to convince the U.S. Air Force that it needed a small, lightweight, and relatively inexpensive fighter that could dogfight rather than rely on long-range air-to-air missiles as the F-4 had. The result was one of the most prolific modern jets, with more than 4,600 built since 1976, used by 25 nations and growing. It has also seen more combat than most current fighters, especially by the U.S. and Israeli air forces.

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The Viper is about 50 feet long with a wingspan of 33 feet and weighs about 10 tons. It can reach a speed of Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound), is highly maneuverable, and is armed with a 20-mm cannon as well as 11 hardpoints to carry weapons and drop tanks, plus pods to jam radars and identify ground targets for precision-guided munitions. Its exact armament in Ukrainian hands will depend on what munitions the U.S. and Europe agree to send, but the F-16 is equally formidable in air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. In addition to medium-range AIM-120 radar-homing and AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles, it can carry JDAM glide bombs, HARM anti-radiation missiles, and probably long-range European missiles such as Britain’s Storm Shadow. The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is particularly important. Unlike Ukraine’s current radar-guided air-to-air missiles, which require the launch aircraft to continuously maintain radar lock on the target, the AMRAAM has an onboard “fire and forget” radar that autonomously homes in on the target.

But versatility in all things means less capability at any one thing. “You can use the F-16 for air-to-air, but it’s not as good as an F-15,” Tannehill says. “You can use it for close-air support, but it’s not as good as an A-10. It can do ground attack, but it’s not as good as an F-15E Strike Eagle. … It’s a good aircraft at virtually everything, but it’s not the best at anything.”

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The Su-35 also has a complicated history. It’s descended from the late-1970s Su-27 (NATO code name: “Flanker”), an air superiority aircraft designed for air-to-air combat. It was intended to be the Soviet answer to the F-15: just looking at the two twin-engine aircraft shows they have more in common than the F-15 has with the single-engine F-16.

The Su-35 was conceived in the early 1980s as a more maneuverable version of the Su-27 Flanker (hence the Su-35 is known as the “Flanker-E” or “Super Flanker”). After Sukhoi experimented with various prototypes under the Soviet and then Russian governments, the current Su-35 took shape in the early 2000s as an improved Su-27 with some air-to-ground capability that makes it more like fighter-bombers such as the F-16.

The Su-35 simply dwarfs the F-16. With a length of 72 feet and a wingspan of 50 feet, the Su-35 is about 50 percent larger than the F-16; at more than 18 tons, it’s almost twice the weight of the Viper. The Su-35 is armed with a 30-mm cannon as well as a dozen hardpoints capable of launching an array of air-to-air and air-to-ground ordnance. What particularly worries Ukraine and the West are its long-range R-37 and R-77 radar-homing air-to-air missiles, which are fire-and-forget weapons that can pick off Ukrainian aircraft from beyond the range of Ukrainian air-to-air missiles.

Complicating matters is the variety of aircraft involved. There are many variants of the half-century-old F-16, including various “blocks” of U.S. Air Force Vipers, as well as country-specific models for nations such as Israel . The latest version is the F-16 Block 70 , with an APG-83 Advanced Electronically Scanned Array radar, an upgraded engine, and conformal fuel tanks.

But the Danish and Dutch F-16s pledged to Ukraine are Cold War models. They are F-16 MLU (Mid Life Update) models, which are European F-16A/Bs from the late 1970s that were upgraded in the mid-1990s with features such as an improved AN/APG-66(V)2 radar (an older non-AESA [Active Electronically Scanned Array] sensor), GPS navigation, and the capability to launch AIM-120 missiles. It is reasonable to assume that they are inferior to the latest Vipers, but far superior to Cold War-era F-16s.

“With the Mid-Life Update, what you’ve got to keep in mind is these aircraft have been continually upgraded with software that allow them to use modern weaponry,” Tannehill explains.

// The Su-35 Is More Maneuverable, But That Won’t Help //

Normally, a smaller vehicle is more maneuverable than a bigger vehicle. But for jet fighters, it isn’t that simple. There are a variety of technical factors, such as wing-loading (advantage: F-16) and thrust-to-weight ratio for quick acceleration (advantage: Su-35).

What is notable is that the Su-35 is considered “supermaneuverable,” in large part because it uses thrust-vectoring, which employs steerable nozzles to direct engine thrust. Using a capability found on only a few aircraft—including the F-22 and Su-30MKI—the Su-35 can perform the spectacular “Cobra maneuver,” where the fighter abruptly slows and stands on its tail, forcing an enemy aircraft behind to overshoot.

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While impressive at air shows, the Cobra maneuver also deprives an aircraft of speed and energy, which is not a good thing in a dogfight. But the real problem is that while maneuverability was an issue in World War II or the Vietnam War, it is not a major factor in modern air combat. If today’s jets dogfight, it’s probably because one or both sides either made a mistake or lacked the technical capability for stand-off attack. The trend is for modern fighters, such as the F-35, to act as aerial snipers that stealthily pick off their prey with a long-range air-to-air missile that the target doesn’t even detect until it’s too late.

“What really matters is your radar, your reach, your [network] connectivity and how low-observable [stealthy] you are,” Tannehill says. “Radar determines when you see the other guy. Reach allows you to determine when you get to shoot. Low-observable allows you to push in closer.”

Indeed, this has been the pattern in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Fearing advanced surface-to-air missiles such as Russia’s S-400 and the U.S. Patriot , both Russian and Ukrainian aircraft have stayed on their respective sides of the front line, rather than penetrating enemy airspace. Even if the Su-35 really is supermaneuverable—which has yet to be proven in actual combat—the Ukraine war has not provided an opportunity to display it.

// The Su-35 Is the Better Sniper //

Unfortunately for Ukraine, the Su-35 is deadly at beyond-visual-range air combat as well as dogfighting. First, the Su-35 may spot the F-16 before the Viper spots the Flanker-E; the Su-35’s Irbis-E radar can reportedly detect airborne targets up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) away, according to its manufacturer, Tikhomirov.

The Irbis isn’t quite cutting-edge. It’s a passive electronically scanned array (PESA) system, which uses a single transmitter/receiver to emit a single beam on a single frequency through multiple antennas. This enables the radar beam to be electronically aimed at different directions without needing to mechanically rotate the antennas. That’s not as advanced as the AESA radars used on many Western fighters—including the latest F-16 Block 70 and Block 72 models—that use multiple transmitters to emit multiple signals at multiple frequencies simultaneously.

AESA radars can track multiple targets and are less susceptible to jamming . However, Ukraine isn’t getting AESA-equipped F-16s. The F-16 MLU’s AN/APG-66(V)2 radar is a gimballed pulse-doppler system with mechanically steered antennas that offer slower scanning on one frequency at a time. “Pulse-doppler screams ‘80s vintage,” Tannehill says.

In addition, the Su-35’s radar is more powerful. It has 5 kilowatts of power compared to just 770 watts for the AN/APG-66(V)2, Tannehill says. “I’m not saying that it can see five times farther or ten times farther, but it can see a lot farther than an APG-66.”

As if superior radar isn’t enough, the Su-35 has—on paper—better missiles. The R-37 has an estimated target-detection range of 400 kilometers (249 miles), while the R-77-1 has a range of 110 kilometers (68 miles). These “fire and forget” active-homing missiles streak to the vicinity of their target, and then use their own onboard radar to home in for the kill.

How effective these missiles are at such extreme ranges is questionable, but against Ukraine’s older jets, the Su-35 has been lethal. Su-35s and Su-30SMs, flying safely behind Russian lines at 30,000 feet, are locking on to Ukrainian jets with their Irbis radar, and then firing R-37 and R-77-1 missiles. Ukrainian fighters are armed with Soviet-era R-27 missiles with a range of around 50 miles. These early 1980s weapons use semi-active radar which requires the launch aircraft to continuously illuminate the target with a radar beam.

“Ukrainian pilots confirm that Russia’s Su-30SM and Su-35S completely outclass Ukrainian Air Force fighter aircraft on a technical level,” according to a November 2022 report by Britain’s Royal United Services Institute think tank. “Throughout the war, Russian fighters have frequently been able to achieve a radar lock and launch R-77-1 missiles at Ukrainian fighters from over 100 kilometers [62 miles] away. Even though such shots have a low probability of kill, they force Ukrainian pilots to go defensive or risk being hit while still far outside their own effective range, and a few such long-range shots found their mark.”

The U.S. has agreed to arm Ukraine’s F-16s with the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, first deployed in 1991. While the U.S. Air Force’s website lists the range of the AMRAAM as 20-plus miles, the latest AIM-120D is estimated to have a range of about 100 miles, which would outrange the R-77 but not the R-37. The Ukrainian government said in September 2023 that its AMRAAMs would have a range of around 160 to 180 kilometers (99 to 112 miles), which points to the AIM-120D.

// Our Verdict //

The outcome of a long-range missile duel between Flanker-E and Viper will depend on a lot of factors, including the quality of airborne jammers and decoys, how well these fighters are integrated into ground-based radars and missiles, and coordination between Su-35s and Russian A50 airborne radar aircraft.

And there are still other factors that may not become evident until combat is joined. Equipped with the NATO-standard Link 16 datalink, the F-16 probably has superior networking capability to the Su-35. That will make it easier for Vipers to coordinate with other air and ground platforms, including receiving early warning and targeting data from other sensors. While advanced Russian aircraft also have datalinks, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been plagued by unreliable communications systems and rigid command and control.

Even if outranged and outnumbered, Ukrainian F-16s could fly low to avoid radar detection amid ground clutter, and then use sensor data from other platforms to launch an AIM-120 at Russian aircraft. “The Russians may find out the hard way just how good datalink plus AMRAAM is,” Tannehill says.

Or, perhaps Ukrainian F-16s will try to avoid air combat whenever possible. Instead, they may be deemed more valuable as air-to-ground platforms, launching HARM anti-radiation missiles against Russian air defense radars, and cruise missiles and glide bombs against bridges, supply depots, and command posts.

For Russia, the threat posed by the Su-35 will keep the F-16s in check. The duel between two of the world’s most capable fighters may end in stalemate.

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High maintenance 'prima donna' F-16 jets will be hard work for Ukraine, former US Marine pilot says

  • Ukraine is due to receive much-anticipated F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies.
  • A former US Marine said Ukraine may face challenges operating and maintaining the jets.
  • He said the jets are much more "high maintenance" than the Soviet-era aircraft Ukraine is used to.

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As Ukraine awaits the long-anticipated delivery of F-16 jets from its Western allies, experts warn that it may face challenges operating the "high maintenance" aircraft.

Tom Richter, a former US Marine pilot who flew the jets when in the National Guard, told Politico that the F-16 is "a sensitive beast" compared with the Soviet-era aircraft that Ukraine is used to.

"If you ever walked up and put your hands on a MiG-29 at an air show and then walked right over and put your hands on an F-16, you can feel just from the outside how the F-16 is highly engineered," he said.

"It is a prima donna, and it is very sensitive and needs high maintenance," he continued, adding that Ukraine's Soviet-era MiG jets are more "rough and tumble" and require less maintenance.

Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, told Politico that some changes would be needed for Ukraine to operate the F-16 Fighting Falcons.

"Falcons indeed need some adaptation — this is the preparation of the runways because the landing gear is more delicate in the MiGs, the wheels are small, the air intakes are low to the strip, there may be a danger of swallowing objects. But all this can be solved. There are risks for all aviation," he said.

F-16s , which are built by Lockheed Martin, are "a compact, multi-role fighter aircraft" used in air-to-air and air-to-surface combat, per the US Air Force's website .

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A coalition of countries led by the US, Denmark, and the Netherlands is helping train Ukrainian pilots and crews to operate and maintain the jets.

A cohort of Ukrainian pilots began training on the F-16 in Denmarks's Skrydstrup Air Base last August, Reuters reported.

Denmark's defense minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, told The New York Times that despite challenges with language and Western military practices, the Ukrainian pilots' training was progressing well and that they were now flying the jets over Danish airspace.

Other countries, such as the UK, are preparing the pilots for the training by providing basic flying and English language lessons.

The UK government said in a press release earlier this week that 10 Ukrainian pilots had graduated from Royal Air Force training and would now be moving on to advanced flying training with the French Air Force before learning to operate the F-16.

There are also about 50 Ukrainian technicians being trained to support and repair the jets, which are so complex that it generally takes eight to 14 people to maintain each one, The Times reported.

One Ukrainian pilot training in Denmark previously praised the jets and said using them was like upgrading from a Nokia to an iPhone.

The pilot said that while the F-16s were "awesome," it has been a challenge adapting to their advanced electronic systems.

Kyiv has long argued that it needs fighter jets to effectively combat Russian forces and has pushed allies to deliver the F-16s as soon as possible.

Of the roughly 45 jets pledged to Ukraine, the first six will be sent by Denmark in the late spring, The Times reported.

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Countries promised the fighter jets last year, but delivering them and training pilots have proved complex. Ukraine may start with as few as six, out of about 45 pledged.

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Reporting from the Fetesti air base in Romania

The jets are ready, and the flight instructors are waiting, at a new training center in Romania that was created to teach Ukraine’s pilots to fly the F-16 warplane. But there’s a catch: The Ukrainian pilots have yet to arrive, despite declarations last summer that the center would play a crucial role in getting them into the air to defend their country from increasingly deadly Russian strikes.

It’s still unclear when Ukrainian pilots will begin training at the center, at the Fetesti air base in southeast Romania, which NATO allies also are using to get schooled on the fighter jets. But the delay is a window into the confusion and chaos that has confronted the military alliance’s rush to supply the F-16s.

That is not to say that Ukraine’s pilots are not being prepared. Twelve pilots so far — fewer than a full squadron — are expected to be ready to fly F-16s in combat by this summer after 10 months of training in Denmark, Britain and the United States.

But by the time the pilots return to Ukraine, as few as six F-16s will have been delivered out of about 45 of the fighter jets that European allies have promised.

Nevertheless, their highly anticipated arrival over the battlefield will come not a moment too soon. Russia has employed more aggressive air support to gain ground in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, using its warplanes to send guided glide bombs over long distances into the Ukrainian front lines.

And Ukraine is desperate for more weapons, of any kind, as it runs low on artillery rounds and other ammunition while Republicans in Congress hold up additional American military aid. The F-16s would likely come armed with short- and medium-range missiles and bombs, partially making up for the shortage of ground-based munitions.

“This year, new fighter jets will be in our skies, and we have to make this year an effective one in defending ourselves against Russian guided bombs, Russian aircraft and their missiles,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on March 1.

Yet officials agreed that much uncertainty remains about when each country will send its jets, how many will be sent, how fast pilots can be trained, and how Ukraine will get enough people who can maintain the planes properly.

By normal standards, the training of Ukraine’s pilots on the sophisticated Western jets has proceeded at lightning speed, compressing years of classroom learning, simulations and flight exercises into months.

Even so, it is moving more slowly than Ukraine or its allies had hoped, as pilots trained on Soviet-era planes and tactics have had to get up to speed on the English language and Western military practices to make effective use of the F-16s.

Denmark’s defense minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, said in an email exchange that the “training is progressing well,” and noted that Ukraine’s pilots were already flying over Danish airspace. But he said their learning curve “ultimately will decide the length of the training.”

Denmark was at the forefront of a European push last spring to provide Ukraine with F-16s. Ukrainian officials who had overcome Western resistance to supplying a long series of advanced weapons — artillery, air defense missiles, tanks — said the fighter jet was the last major weapon their fighters needed to help them prevail.

The Biden administration reluctantly gave in to Ukraine’s demands, allowing allies to provide the F-16s. The jets are produced by Lockheed Martin and are being phased out in some European militaries in favor of newer F-35 warplanes.

But American officials have warned that the F-16s alone would not be decisive in the war, and that, at any rate, the training would take a considerable amount of time.

“There aren’t very many Ukrainian pilots to be able to pilot those aircraft,” Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, told ABC News last month , defending the Biden administration’s delay in approving plans to send F-16s to the war. “It’s not about whether or not F-16s could possibly have been on the battlefield in the spring of last year.”

He said the United States and its allies were now trying to send Ukraine “all of the tools and capabilities that it needs to be able to conduct this fight as rapidly and as efficiently as we possibly can.”

The Ukrainian pilots’ training began last August at Skrydstrup Air Base in southern Denmark, but their deficiencies in language skills and knowledge of Western flying techniques slowed things down. Not until January were the Ukrainian pilots ready to fly, Danish officials said.

Initially, officials said, the Ukrainians were sent to Denmark instead of the training center in Romania because it was not yet open when the pilots were ready to begin. The creation of the center at the Fetesti base was announced last July, at a NATO summit, and in November its instructors began training Romania’s own pilots for that country’s new F-16 squadron.

Last week, combat-ready Romanian and Turkish pilots guided their F-16s in Romanian airspace about 12 miles from the Black Sea, in a mock intercept of a military cargo plane, to demonstrate their ability to protect NATO air space. Later, they streaked across the sky in dramatic swooping maneuvers, showing off for journalists assembled at the Fetesti base below.

Like the Ukrainian pilots, Romanian trainees at the base were skilled at flying Soviet- and Russian-made jets when they began the Western courses in November. But unlike the Ukrainians, Romania’s pilots already spoke English and were familiar with NATO operating standards.

“So the transition for us wasn’t really all that difficult,” said one of the Romanian pilots being trained, a major who would identify himself only by his call sign, Red. “And we’re just excited to continue flying.”

The next class of eight Ukrainian pilots is scheduled to arrive in Denmark at the end of the summer, but it is not clear when any of them will begin training at Fetesti.

“That’s up to the governments and the contracts that support all that,” said Col. Bill Thomas, a retired U.S. Air Force officer who is overseeing a Lockheed Martin training program for the Romanian pilots at the Fetesti base. “We’re still waiting on all the approvals.”

Then there is the matter of the F-16s themselves.

So far, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium have committed to sending about 45 of the jets to Ukraine, enough for three small squadrons. Denmark is sending the first six in the late spring, with 13 more due to arrive over the rest of the year and into 2025.

The other countries have not set a delivery date for their F-16s. The Netherlands, which has pledged 24, will hold on to them until Ukraine is ready to receive them, said Jurriaan Esser, a spokesman for the Dutch Defense Ministry.

About 50 Ukrainian technicians are being trained in Denmark to support and repair the jets and handle their weapons packages, given that the F-16 is so complex that it generally takes eight to 14 people to maintain each one. Officials said Western defense contractors would have to accompany the jets into Ukraine, and remain with them, until there were enough Ukrainian crews to maintain them properly — a process that could take years.

And the need to repair Ukraine’s aging and war-damaged military runways could further delay the F-16s’ entry into the war.

As anxious as Ukraine’s leaders are to send F-16s into battle, they are at least as eager to get their hands on more artillery and munitions that are crucial for the ground war against Russia.

“I don’t think F-16s, to themselves, will be a game changer, due to the technical characteristics and number of F-16 teams that are coming,” said Yevgeniya Gaber, a former Ukrainian diplomat and foreign policy adviser.

“But I think together with other ammo, and long-range missiles, they will be,” said Ms. Gaber, now a professor at the George C. Marshall Center, a national security academy backed by the German and American governments.

Mr. Poulsen, the Danish defense minister, sees the F-16s as not only supporting Ukraine but, by extension, ensuring security across Europe.

“I strongly believe that Ukraine’s fight for freedom is our fight for freedom,” he said, “and that is why Denmark continues to help Ukraine as much as possible.”

Lara Jakes , based in Rome, reports on diplomatic and military efforts by the West to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. She has been a journalist for nearly 30 years. More about Lara Jakes

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Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s top national security official, made a secret trip to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and reaffirm the United States’ unwavering commitment to Ukraine.

Under pressure to come up with billions of dollars to support Ukraine’s military, the E.U. said that it had devised a legal way to use frozen Russian assets  to help arm Ukraine.

Symbolism or Strategy?: Ukrainians say that defending places with little strategic value is worth the cost in casualties and weapons , because the attacking Russians pay an even higher price. American officials aren’t so sure.

Elaborate Tales: As the Ukraine war grinds on, the Kremlin has created increasingly complex fabrications online  to discredit Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, and undermine the country’s support in the West.

Targeting Russia’s Oil Industry: With its army short of ammunition and troops to break the deadlock on the battlefield, Kyiv has increasingly taken the fight beyond the Ukrainian border, attacking oil infrastructure deep in Russian territory .

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The bombers are wrecking Ukrainian defenses on the ground

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Crude glide-bombs—with pop-out wings and bolt-on satellite-guidance kits—arguably are the decisive weapons in the 25th month of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.

Possibly more decisive than explosive first-person-view drones. Possibly even more-so than the traditional king of battle: artillery.

And at present, there’s very little Ukraine can do to fight back. Its best air-defense missiles and launchers are in desperately short supply. Its ex-Soviet fighter jets lack the range to engage the glide-bombers. And its ex-European F-16s, which might give the Ukrainians a fighting chance, haven’t yet arrived.

Dropping a hundred or more KAB glide-bombs a day from as far away as 40 miles, Russian air force Sukhoi fighter-bombers systematically demolish Ukrainian defenses, easing the way for Russian army assault groups to advance, albeit still at great cost.

KABs are a major reason the Ukrainian garrison in the eastern city Avdiivka ultimately retreated last month following a brutal, four-month battle. The other main reason, of course, is that Russia-friendly Republicans in the U.S. Congress cut off aid to Ukraine starting in October, depriving Ukrainian forces of vital ammunition.

At the height of the battle for Avdiivka in mid-February, the Russian air force lobbed 250 KABs in just two days . “These bombs completely destroy any position,” wrote Egor Sugar, a trooper with the Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade, which covered the Avdiivka garrison’s retreat.

The Avdiivka glide-bombing campaign could “herald a change in Russian operations elsewhere along the front line,” the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. warned as Avdiivka fell.

ISW was right. It now is standard practice for the Russian air force to concentrate its glide-bombing on whichever town the Russian army wants to seize. “Preceding the assault, Russians deploy KAB guided air-dropped bombs against Ukrainian positions and proceed with artillery preparatory shelling,” Ukrainian analysis group Frontelligence Insight explained .

The post-bombing Russian ground assaults “while relatively small in scale, are consistent and frequent,” Frontelligence Insight noted. “When combined with aerial bomb drops, artillery strikes and drone deployments, these assaults prove to be considerably taxing” on ammo-starved Ukrainian troops.

Thus KAB bombings blasted the Ukrainians out of Avdiivka and, in the following few weeks, also out of the villages just west of Avdiivka. Clearly intending to escalate their attacks on Bilohorivka, 55 miles north of Avdiivka, the Russians are aiming more KABs at that settlement, too.

The Ukrainian air force briefly fought back against the Russian glide-bombers in the weeks after Avdiivka fell. Apparently deploying mobile launchers for American-made Patriot air-defense missiles—each ranging as far as 90 miles—the Ukrainians shot down 13 Russian Sukhoi Su-34s and Sukhoi Su-35s in 13 days.

But then, on March 9, a skilled—or at least lucky—Russian drone-operator spotted a Patriot team on the move around 20 miles from the front line, and cued an Iskander ground-launched ballistic missile that blew up two of the Ukrainian launchers and apparently killed their crews.

Cut off from U.S. aid by Russia-friendly Republicans, the Ukrainian air force cannot easily replace any Patriot launchers it loses. Considering the air force has just two dozen or so launchers, in total, it should come as no surprise that, following the March 9 attack, the service apparently pulled its surviving Patriots farther from the front line.

At the same time, Russian technicians tweaked the KAB design to boost its range from 25 miles to 40 miles. Abruptly, the balance of power shifted. Ukrainian air-defenses no longer could counter the Russian glide-bombers.

And don’t count on Ukraine’s MiG and Sukhoi fighters to take up the air-defense slack along the front line. The Ukrainian air force’s dozens of Mikoyan MiG-29s and Sukhoi Su-27s can detect aerial targets around 50 or 60 miles away with their N019, N001 or N010 radars and engage them at around half that distance with R-27 missiles.

That means crossing the front line in order to tangle with KAB-armed Russian jets—something Ukrainian pilots do not routinely do. And for good reason. Ukraine’s fighters lack electronic jammers. While flying near or inside Russian lines, they are extremely vulnerable to Russian air-defenses.

The 50 or 60 Lockheed Martin F-16s Ukraine is set to receive from Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway could give Ukrainian commanders new options. Fitted with the AN/ALQ-213 self-protection system—which ties together sensors, podded jammers and countermeasures such as chaff and flares to protect a jet from missiles—the F-16s might safely fly closer to the front line, or even over it.

Spotting targets as far away as 70 miles with their AN/APG-66(V)2 radars, the F-16 pilots could launch AIM-120 missiles from 57 miles away—far enough to hit the glide-bombers without venturing deep into Russian-controlled air space.

Perhaps most importantly, the AIM-120 is a fire-and-forget missile with its own tiny radar. A pilot can maneuver away right after firing it. The best R-27ER is, by contrast, a semi-active missile. A pilot must illuminate the target with his own radar throughout the R-27’s flight. That exposes him to return fire.

No one should claim an F-16 firing AIM-120s is a super-weapon, or invulnerable to enemy missiles. Once it deploys them in combat in the coming weeks or months, Ukraine will lose F-16s and their pilots —potentially a lot of them. The big question is what Kyiv gains with this sacrifice.

If Ukrainian commanders truly appreciate the danger that Russian KABs pose to Ukrainian positions on the ground, they must deploy the F-16s aggressively—and target the Russian Sukhois with their clutches of lethal glide-bombs.

“The challenge posed by the extensive use of KABs is likely to persist,” Frontelligence Insight explained, “and a resolution may only come through the additional procurement and deployment of Patriot air-defense systems and F-16s equipped with advanced air-to-air missiles.”

1. Frontelligence Insight: https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/20/want-to-know-how-ukraine-can-resist-russia-in-2024-look-to-bilohorivka/

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3. Center for Defense Strategies: https://cdsdailybrief.substack.com/p/russias-war-on-ukraine-20032024?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1598923&post_id=142805111&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=7jgcu&triedRedirect=true

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A Greek F-16 crashes during a training mission, but the pilot is rescued

FILE - Greek Fighter Jets F-16, fly over Tanagra air force base about 74 kilometres (46 miles) north of Athens, Greece on Sept. 12, 2022. Greek authorities say on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

FILE - Greek Fighter Jets F-16, fly over Tanagra air force base about 74 kilometres (46 miles) north of Athens, Greece on Sept. 12, 2022. Greek authorities say on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities said an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight Wednesday. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued.

The incident occurred near the small island of Psathoura, 175 kilometers (110 miles) northeast of Athens, after the single-seat jet fighter took off from an air base in central Greece.

The pilot was rescued by a helicopter launched as part of a joint mission by the military and the coast guard, the air force said. The pilot was hospitalized for observation.

Greece is currently upgrading its F-16 fleet as part of a major military modernization program aimed at keeping pace with regional rival Turkey.

Wednesday’s crash occurred hours after Greece took delivery of three U.S.-made MH-60R Seahawk navy helicopters at a ceremony near Athens. The manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, said it will deliver four more MH-60Rs in 2025.

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