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Originally Posted by Chris
The main benefit is maintenance (there is a truly vast spare parts pool), availability of replacement aircraft for losses (literally 1,000s of them are just lying around in the US) and interoperability with the Nato weapons we’ve been giving them. You have to hack MiG-29s to get them to fire western missiles and it’s unlikely the full range of capabilities of those missiles are usable at present because of that.
They aren’t technically superior to what the Russians are flying but they will make the Ukrainian air force’s task somewhat more straightforward.
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They are slightly as in longer range radar and AA missiles. The F16 can detect and fire on Russian aircraft before being detected themselves.