Romania is a kakistocracy and all branches of government and defense are affected by it. With the exception of troops sent to afghanistan and iraq the rest of t

Romania is a kakistocracy and all branches of government and defense are affected by it. With the exception of troops sent to afghanistan and iraq the rest of the army is in a very poor shape. Despite spending 2% of its gdp on defense pilots dont get adequate flight hours. Here is an article in romanian about a similar mig accident from 2018 (there was one in 2021 as well) and it will detail the lack of training (please use language tools to translate): https://www.vice.com/amp/ro/article/kzyed9/mig-21-prabusit-baza-aeriana-borcea https://www.vice.com/amp/ro/article/kzyed9/mig-21-prabusit-b... The helicopter sent on a rescue mission today also crashed. Also old tech and poor training. Similar crash happened in 2013. The migs are called “flying coffins” in romania. A few years ago one lost an engine at or after take off (it literally fell off), cant find the article. Since the army is not much in the public eye, i can only begin to imagine the state its in. Sad but true. Edit: new f16s are available, but given there isnt sufficient training available they cant operate all of them.