First F-16 training for Ukrainians to be conducted by UK

Foreign Policy reported the information.

The UK will host the "ground" part of the training of Ukrainian pilots to work with Western F-16 fighter jets. Currently, Ukraine is ready to send 20 military personnel who are "already fluent in English" for training. This should facilitate faster learning of the course.

The outlet said that the training provided by the NATO course "Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals" will be divided into several stages. It will involve working first on simulators and then on real aircraft. It is possible that at the beginning it will not be an F-16, but another type of fighter jet, a simpler one. 

• Air Force Command spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said that it takes a week to learn to fly the multifunctional American F-16 fighter jets. It is much more difficult to fight on them, because they differ from the Soviet ones.