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That's what people were complaining about in Poland in 00s when we bought F-16 in addition to our MiG-29. That the airplanes will be hard to maintain, aren't a
by ajuc 3y ago
That's what people were complaining about in Poland in 00s when we bought F-16 in addition to our MiG-29.
That the airplanes will be hard to maintain, aren't as rugged, can't handle street landing and improvised conditions. There was a huge scandal because one of the F-16 was flown from USA to Poland and did emergency landing on the way because of some minor technical issue.
20 years later and we lost two MiG-29 to bad maintenance and no F-16.
- pessimizer 3y agoThat's because the F-16s might be in (and even 'owned by') Poland, but they're for the defense of the US. We're not going to let them fall apart.
- Amiable5326 3y agoNo idea where Poland got that idea about F-16s as they have a reputation for being a reliable and robust fighter even before Poland purchased the planes, unlike the MiG-29 which is a maintenance queen (particularly the engines) and has a reputation for being a mediocre plane whose career mainly consists of being shot of out of the sky.
- ajuc 3y agoThere was a competition between F-16 and Grippen :)