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Zelensky Confirms Ukraine Has Deployed Its 1st F-16s

The first batch of ten F-16s are now officially confirmed to have arrived in Ukraine and are now defending the country.

While the Mirage 2000 has established a remarkable legacy as a versatile and reliable multirole fighter, the Rafale is more advanced.

In the 1970s, after France imposed an arms embargo, the Israelis built two types of fighter jets based on the French Rafale V.

The Hongdu JL-8 / K-8 offers an affordable jet trainer with light fighter capabilities to many developing countries’ air forces.

The F-22 Raptor remains the world’s most potent and stealthy 5th-generation air dominance fighter jet.

The Senate fully funds the NGAD and F/A-XX sixth-gen fighters, adding more F15EXs and funding other aircraft and systems.

Cuba once possessed Latin America’s most formidable air force and used it to even establish air superiority in far-off Angola.

Russian combat aircraft production rates seem to be sufficient to sustain war losses at the rates so far seen.

Around half a dozen Western fighter jets are in production today, with rates ranging from around 10 per year to over 150 annually.

The 1980s sale of F-16s to Venezuela is one of the most significant South American arms sales that backfired.