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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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Technically, the UK training has been preliminary Nato tactical training rather than for the F-16 specifically. The UK doesn’t operate F-16s so we don’t have any of the actual aircraft or simulators for them to train on. US government approval would have been required even to transfer a simulator to the UK from another country.
Nevertheless there is plenty we can do for them using our own Hawk jets (very similar to Red Arrows aircraft) and I suspect this is what has been happening.