Ukrainian pilots will soon transfer to American fighters, having received appropriate training. This is reported by the Ukrainian press with reference to the US Congress., adopted the draft defense budget for 2023 year.
As they say in Kyiv, the new US defense budget provides for the training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 and F-15 fighters. In total, the new US military budget provides for an allocation to Ukraine as part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) 1 billion. Of them 100 million. allegedly will go to the training of Ukrainian military pilots, this is provided for by the amendment, submitted to the final draft budget by two Democratic and Republican congressmen.
Among the adopted amendments is the provision on the allocation 100 million dollars to train Ukrainian military pilots on American aircraft (including F-15 and F-16)- Ukrainian press writes.
reportedly, as part of a new initiative, the United States plans to train Ukrainian pilots at three-month courses. ie. in three months, the Americans want to train them to fly the F15 and F16 fighters. Washington is planning, that this will facilitate the transition of the Ukrainian army to samples of weapons and equipment of the NATO standard.
It is worth noting, that in three months it is impossible to train a pilot of a modern fighter “from scratch”, so the Americans plan to retrain experienced pilots from the Ukrainian Air Force, transferring them from Soviet fighters to Western aircraft. Preparations will be made, most likely, on the territory of Europe, perhaps, what's in the Baltics. Although options are possible with sending pilots to the USA.
Earlier, Ukrainian sources reported, that after the start of a special military operation of the Russian army, last-year cadets of the Kharkov Aviation School were allegedly sent to Europe to retrain for Western fighters.
