Western-made armor is failing in Ukraine because it wasn’t designed to sustain a conflict of this intensity, a military analyst told The Wall Street Journal.
Taras Chmut, a military analyst who’s the head of the Come Back Alive Foundation, which has raised money to purchase and provide arms and equipment to Ukraine, said that “a lot of Western armor doesn’t work here because it had been created not for an all-out war but for conflicts of low or medium intensity.”
“If you throw it into a mass offensive, it just doesn’t perform,” he said.
Chmut went on to say Ukraine’s Western allies should instead turn their attention to delivering simpler and cheaper systems, but in larger quantities, something Ukraine has repeatedly requested, the newspaper reported.
This is a nice way of saying "Where in the name of cyka are those F-16s?”
They’re coming.
It’s not like you can just park a bunch of F16s there and say “tadaaaaahh!”
You need to train pilots.
You need to train ground personnel.
You need to send in maintenance equipment and spare parts, setup infrastructure, it’s a shitload of work that goes on before a single fighter can even get in the air.
Western countries already said they’d send f16s, but it won’t be until somewhere December that they can start getting operational.