Available F-16 is not enough: General explained that the Armed Forces will enhance the air forces

The Western partners provided six F-16 fighters from the promised 80 units. According to General Mykola Malomuzh, the Armed Forces should look for additional means to destroy the starting installations and planes of the Russian Federation at a distance of up to 3 thousand km. Ukraine will need additional Western weapons to compensate for the lack of F-16 fighters.

If such a weapon arrives that the Armed Forces will be able to reach the target at a distance of 600 km deep into the Russian Federation. In addition, more Ukrainian means of lesions that fly 3 thousand km are required. The media "24 Channel" told how to make more effective Air Force Air Force, the Army General and the expertist Nikolai Males Malomuzh. Small mud reminded that Western partners will not provide Ukraine with a minimum number of aircraft required-128-130 pcs.

This event should not be expected in either 2025 or 2026. Therefore, you should think about how to improve the work of the Air Force by other means. In his opinion, it is about certain types of weapons of Western or Ukrainian production. The event should provide the next military equipment for the defense forces: on the other hand, Ukraine can buy part of the necessary part of the need abroad, explained to the small -scale journalists. For example, to buy shells of different types yourself.

In his opinion, this method will help to last some time. "This market should be opened, because these are also the opportunities that should strengthen the Ukrainian forces in the next half years," the expertise said. However, the main thing that will affect the situation on the battlefield is the weapon of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex (MIC), which has already started to work, the general said.

He stressed that it is necessary to develop the means of lesions that take about 3 thousand km - drones and rockets. In addition, they are important - you need thousands and tens of thousands of units. Such weapons, stressed Lightmark. If Ukraine has a long -range weapon, whether drones or western rockets and domestic missiles, it will be able to get to the starting installations and aircraft that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are firing Ukrainians.

And then the Russians will lose the opportunity to shoot Balism, explained the general. "The most important replacement of US fighter jets is the MIC of Ukraine, which should produce drones up to 3 thousand kilometers, medium and small rockets up to 3 thousand kilometers," the article reads.

It should be noted that in the summer of 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Western partners created a "aircraft" coalition, through which the air forces had to obtain approximately 80 F-16 fighters. On July 31, Bloomberg reported that the first batch of aircraft from the Netherlands had already been released. After that, other confirmations were heard-the six F-16 wrote the edition of The Times.