[000:00:00;00] and an informational marathon with vitaly portnikov every sunday at 20:10 on espresso van. i congratulate you. dear viewers, on the air of espresso tv channel, program studio event, we will analyze the most important events of this week in our today's guest, peter greenburg, an american military pilot. peter greenburgh us military volunteer pilot and

military instructor greetings dear sir peter, thank you for the invitation. i am very pleased with how much the f16 can change the situation on the battlefield. well, i would just like to ask you to tell me what they represent to you as a person who has spent more than one hundred hours on f-16 aircraft. the good news is that the f-16 is a very successful system . they have been in use for a long time. radars and even more importantly the entire system that supports the 16, including the intelligence surveillance system, which in itself includes a lot of things. i think that the main thing for the f-16 is that when they will work successfully in ukraine, it is that they will in a certain way add

to the defense of ukraine, protect both the urban infrastructure and the civilian population, and i think they will help ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield. th for many years and in some cases has very modern advanced technology it is still the same generation as russian aircraft and in fact even older generation than the newest russian surface to air missiles it would be natoptimistic to think that f-16 even a significant number of them could just swoop in and then clear everything of enemy surface to air missiles and clear the sky of enemy aircraft so this is a very complex and difficult problem that western forces and nato forces

have spent enormous amounts of money trying to solve the tactics of weapons and technologies, not all these technologies will arrive in ukraine, this is the point, it is quite likely that a small number of f16s will arrive in ukraine to begin with, the pilots will by definition be novices on their planes, so i would expect a very gradual and, unfortunately, very slow integration of the f-16 in the general system, the overall picture of the war to understand i do not know this picture, it is possible, i think it is a lot of people who are very closely monitoring the situation on the ground and of course, ukrainians monitor the protection of their nation from air attacks, but in fact you know the details where are the enemy systems and what are their capabilities i don't know these details so i have very limited knowledge of the situation what i can tell you so this is what it would be a mistake to assume that the f-16 will be used by the ukrainian military in the same way as they would be used by the western military and i believe that for many it was one of the wrong assumptions of people in the west and also here in ukraine if the f16 can't solve this problem then we supposedly don't need it or it won't be useful but it doesn't end

like that the f 16 will be a supplement to military efforts that are already taking place so now ukrainian pilots are boldly flying the planes they have and doing an incredible job with them so giving them more advanced tools and more advanced only increases the capabilities they have for example the f16 can have a huge impact on the battlefield without even approaching the battlefield because the west has invested heavily in high-precision long-range weapons and these weapons have been improved even after i stopped flying more than five years ago so

the idea that the f-16 is just going to to slip through and solve all the problems is nice but it is false what we know so this is that this is good news for ukraine and very bad news for russia the use of f16 will hinder the enemy in his work i agree the russians will not just launch a war against ukraine they are killing our civilians they are hitting civilian objects this is another war crime on the part of the russians because they know what coordinates they work on the other side we understand what we are talking about f16 and we we understand that this training should be comprehensive and not only for pilots, not only ours aviators, we understand this is one story, the second story is the protected airfields, this is the air defense system, and the third is general communication, all these areas are important, the training of battlefield control, radar teams, intelligence analysts, search and identification of targets is a whole system, it is not like, say, in boxing, boxers are given by their opponent, where there are appropriate conditions of the environment, the rules of the judge and the understanding of the beginning and end, it is not so fast at all, it is like a fight in a bar, where

any techniques are used, there are no rules i am sure from the fact that i know that many of the latest systems have already been integrated into the ukrainian defense and i am sure that the capabilities of the f-16 will be successfully used in the broader context of the defense of the nation, our pilots have demonstrated the literal meaning of miracles very often at the cost of their lives, miracles not only of heroism but also of skill. for example, i worked before on the mig-29, this is all that is worth

seeing . pilot training is difficult. first of all, you need to understand that pilot training is only part of the problem. you also need to solve the problems of supply logistics, and the technicians who repair aircraft must learn how to do it. to fly f and to master at 16 what i will tell them they will love this plane it is easy to fly it is extremely computerized digitized and we already know that the mig-29 uses a certain set of western weapons for example harm missiles to suppress enemy air defense systems they drop guided gps ammunition and other missiles of the storchadov type other special weapons and i will tell you i do not know the details of how it was possible to integrate these weapons now but it is definitely much more complicated use and was able to 29 smart weapons have

their requirements first of all they need more information, because that's why it's smart, almost the same as you and i, so to get such a weapon in the right city at the right time at the right speed and in the right conditions and make all these things happen is very difficult on an aircraft that was not designed for this, many, many of these problems have already been solved on the f-16. even the fact that the f-16 is older than most of these weapons, all this is already integrated on the platform in the electronics, what i can say for sure is that if the ukrainian pilots are already doing what they are doing and quite successfully, then they will do it even more successful with the new modern the equipment that, in your opinion, should be in ukraine in order to firmly say that we now dominate the air in the south of ukraine or in the east of ukraine. i don't know the answers because i don't know the situation. i also don't know what weapons and equipment will arrive on those f-16s to achieve air planning despite the enormous resistance of the russian military. they have good equipment. their planes are not bad . still

lagging behind western technologies, but still me i don't know how much it will take to gain air supremacy, but i know that the defense of ukraine will seriously gain on the way to obtaining air supremacy, air superiority is extremely important for the american or nato doctrine. this is just part of how we conduct operations. but if we see what ukraine has already done without having this air supremacy, you restrained the enemy and pushed him back in many places.

can work quite far behind, they can defend the airspace of cities, this will not have a direct effect on the front line, but will have an indirect effect, the more f16 will be able to defend cities and infrastructure, the more other systems can be used closer to the front line, this effect is adaptive, having f16, ukrainians can successfully use other systems and will have the opportunity to move them to obtain a greater effect, we should also not forget about long-range systems that have f16, this is the weapon that ukraine already has, not even on the very front line and being outside the radio of the judge and enemy systems or planes, the latest fighters such as the f-16 have an intense impact on the battlefield. i am not a soldier and do not understand ground operations, but i can say that there will be opportunities to destroy the fortifications, the defense line of the troops buried in the ground, the weapons depots that are now being attacked with the help of both ukrainian and western weapons, the enemy will not feel safe. when ukraine gets the opportunity to actually deliver long-range strikes

at least the occupiers will be left with either retreat or die they will not be able to move forward, so they will most likely move back, i make promises and only say that the weapons that will become possible for use will destroy the army that is frozen in position, we understand that you can practice your skills for a very long time on chairs, simulators or i don’t know on inflatable bmps, but still everything is decided by specific training on a combat vehicle and then psychological readiness for battle i am impressed by what your pilots are doing now based on very old information about the way the ukrainians acted pilots years ago, in fact, now a lot of new tactics and weapons have appeared, based on old knowledge, i can say that the main thing is that western aircraft provide the pilot with much more information and opportunities for the honorable, they give the opportunity to conduct operations more freely and make decisions already in the air in real time, which is not available now on those old aircraft, simply because the pilot will have more

information. delivery of information to the pilot, provision of a complete picture of what is around him, gives the opportunity to make the best decisions in real time, so the first problem may be a certain oversaturation of information. but i am sure that they will learn not only to fly and use the f16, but also to interrupt it in a way that will surprise western instructors. the ukrainian military shows every time that it is not only about accuracy and clarity, but about the possibilities of innovation and finding new ways of using new technologies and using old technologies in such a way in case they will feel the difference in 16, this is the quality of the old button on the phone, switch to a modern smartphone, it is computerized, digitalized and made easy to use, it is designed so that all the switches, all the buttons that are needed in battle are located right under your fingers, you are surrounded by two computer screens and also a display capable of showing everything so that you can potentially be interested in allies from friendly

aircraft, enemy forces and means, there is a lot to learn, but i am sure that ukrainian pilots do not will be surprised western tactics and the current path as nato uses in 16, but still there are many different ways to achieve the goal and i am sure that they will find them roads peter well, if you were general eisenhower, in what way would you be able to turn to president biden, well, in historical parallels, to president roosevelt, and you would have to voice your needs. that's how you would say dear mr. president , in order to do or achieve extremely specific results on the battlefield

for example in half days of our state on south of ukraine i don't need 50 or 100 f16 20 patriot batteries and 150 storm shadow or i don't know scalp missiles and so on, roughly how do you estimate the number of this complex that could significantly change the situation on the battlefield, this is a great question to answer it i would need the level of information of details that only the ukrainian genstadt has, i could fantasize but the ukrainian reality shows a number of factors how difficult it is for you to defend yourself ukraine is a large european country and you are from three bo kiv surrounded by enemy forces even in eastern moldova, plus the black sea, the east, the southeast, and belarus in the north. i mean that the defense problem is extremely complex, that we can sit here and discuss it for 500+ days, a large-scale repetition of it. these are exactly the capabilities that the ukrainian military has shown . there is definitely such a list somewhere . what are the ukrainian

opportunities for location and use different systems, on the other hand, we hear a lot that we need airports , infrastructure, and so on, but we should remember that western planes were already in ukraine in peacetime, military exercises were held in 2011 and 2009, and then the ef-16 and f-15 were here and worked from ukrainian airbases, so this is a very complex issue. if i could advise the president, a simple guy, an ordinary citizen, i would say that the generals sent to ukraine everything that they ask if ukraine the ukrainian government is asking for something, the basic answer should be yes then investigate if there are any possible reasons why no i don't know all the decisions that are being made but in february 2022 i thought that they will need them at 16 i'm ready to go it took a little time to come true i could say for example what is needed for a table like this and so on but i will also say that a lot is needed to get this plane into the air support is needed a lot of equipment it's right that

you need to make sure that there are landing places and the location of these systems before they arrive in ukraine but i'm also disappointed like many ukrainians that it took so long to get the best weapons to defend our country, we can imagine the front line and temporarily occupied cities that the russians turned into fortified areas well, i don’t know, we are taking the same melitopol or mariupol or berdyansky for example, it comes to this or that anonymous ukrainian pilot or there, i don’t know, to the squadron commander, a combat task , for example, a titanic column below melitopol, yes, well and accordingly, we understand that

on the one hand our russian radars are working the radars are working, the satellite tracking system is working, we understand that the air defense system is already heated to the red color well, accordingly, the squadrons must be advanced when you say to do the job, then you must destroy all the russian tanks in ukraine, and there are many of them, the f16 may not be the best choice for this particular task, when you look at the tactical problems of such an operation, the main thing is to force the enemy to retreat correctly and if you use infantry forces without air supremacy, then yes and it must be done if there are such opportunities, i can say how nato allies use air support if there is an opportunity and it is safe and not too close to their troops, then this also involves local control of the air space, because you need enough freedom of action to find such small targets as tanks, it is not an easy and very difficult task, even for such weapons, the smaller and more mobile the target, the closer you need to get to it. if you use weapons from a long distance

, based on that, the detachments were several hours therefore, they can simply be in another place, there are weapons that simply hit and explode, there are other options, but it is necessary to evaluate how to correctly solve these problems, such an operation can be performed in 16, but it may not be the best choice with a specific place, this is what they do. participation in hostilities or in films and history books, i am sure that ukraine will use the f16 in such a way that it will definitely surprise us and this includes the correct use of aircraft and its arrival on the battlefield and appearing in the necessary place, but at the same time we understand that combat aviation is not only about attacks on the battlefield - it is also about the protection of civilian objects, so the russians regularly killed my fellow citizens with rockets, with the help of their aviation they took and

killed ten lviv residents in one night they took and killed several odessans or residents of mykolaiv use aviation to attack civilian objects and civilian cities well, accordingly, we understand that even in the 16th we could add a little emotion to the last in the life of russian pilots who would enter the combat zone with western combat aircraft in the role of air defenders you will definitely create big problems for the russian aviation that attacks ukraine, many of these weapons that they really use to hit civilian infrastructure and commit war crimes are long-range weapons in

many cases they are not are so accurate it would be possible to talk about the accuracy of their use next to civilian objects, which in itself is already a crime in many cases. it seems that because of this they can hit civilians who could not be these people, we do not know this, it will become known later in the courts, but f-16 have the ability to destroy cruise missiles, which are difficult to defend against, f-16 have the ability to destroy drones , which are very difficult to defend against because they are small and slow, they are difficult to detect like anything else in this war new equipment is not solves all problems at once when the patriots arrived, many people said that well, all the patriots are here, so it won’t be like that anymore. and of course, the new attacks were f16 will be an addition to this, as i said, this will provide more opportunities for air defense, even if the f16 will operate, let’s say, only in the west of ukraine, where they will be able to feel stronger, this will still give an opportunity to move the ground air defense systems somewhere else and protect other locations in general, what is happening in the so-called combat market

pilots, are there any prohibitions in those or in other states, for example, there is one or another, i don't know, a veteran of the iraq war - a citizen of the united states or great britain, he is 50 years old, we understand how to fly, he can fly , he knows how, but the ukrainian state would say listen, dear john, we need you. within a larger system, it's real-time decision-making communication with commanders intelligence analysts all these things must work together and the simple presence of foreign pilots will not solve the problem, they can theoretically be from different countries and fly on different versions of the f16, because there are many of them, they can know and use different tactics, even a group of f16 pilots still need training and preparation in order to use the plane accordingly in these conditions, another problem is that the training of pilots costs millions of dollars, as well as access to

information, so if you imagine that the nato pilot just got off the plane and would like to just come there is no right to do this due to certain conditions, it will be illegal, so there are certain problems with the pilots, as well as problems with the legality of such actions, when you are an f-16 pilot, you have access to a huge combat power, you can in a minute and find yourself in another part of the country, and it is a great responsibility of the leadership of ukraine to transfer such weapons into the hands of foreign pilots, the pilot can also die, he can be shot down and he will be captured , this is a big threat, it does not solve any problems

, so i think that ukraine will find a way to take world experience, there will be instructors and experts, but it is most likely that these will be ukrainian pilots who will defend their country on the f16 peter, your first combat sortie, more precisely, here is your feeling during the first combat sortie, i don't want to disappoint you, but my combat experience is not very exciting, very rare is a close combat, an airplane versus an airplane competition, maybe there are five or six guys left who remember what it's like to shoot down the enemy in close combat, i took part in operations in iraq and a little in afghanistan, i must say that in general, i felt safe, i was in such conditions that my personal safety was not threatened, on the other hand, this danger was with the guys on the ground, so of course i was worried, but probably more to successfully complete the task of helping and ensuring the survival of the guys on the ground and so that they could successfully complete their mission, so what your pilots are dealing with is much more difficult, they are in constant danger, i honestly have no doubts about their bravery thank you very much peter for this frankly and extremely i

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in the project informational marathon with vitaly portnikov every sunday at 8:10 p.m. on espresso hello this is freedom morning informational project radio svoboda top guests every day this is the shipping district of kherson inclusion we try it out live somewhere in the wheels of bachmouth we tell the main thing on weekdays at 9:00 the war in ukraine is the main topic for ukrainians wins and losses analysis and forecasts politics and geopolitics serhiy rudenko and the guests of his programs will talk about all this people who have information and shape public opinion people who defend

ukraine and create the future are the main thing now and the interesting thing in the program is the verdict by serhiy rudenko from monday to friday at 8:00 p.m. repeat at 12:10 now the espresso studio will be open mark fagin, a figure of the russian opposition in exile, a former member of the state duma, a landmark video blogger glory to ukraine mark i congratulate you as a hero, they salute you anton well, what marco putin has been doing for a long time, but such people to south africa he is not going from the other side, we understand that he is seriously starting to raise barbaric rates, in particular, we are talking about regular raids

, regular strikes on our civilian objects in within the limits of what is called putin's attempt to disrupt the grain initiative, it is brics, it was predictable, it was predictable, it was not a trip, because even if the president of south africa, ramofoska, had declared that they would ignore the legal obligation in the international criminal court, he would not have rushed to go . yes, it is a long distance of 12,500 km. about ill-wishers within the government russian god knows how they would deal with it. so putin, it is predictable, did not go primarily because of security issues. as for this situation itself, but he did not decide on a diplomatic task , it was important that he would not go as a poet. by the way, he will understand the participation of what was announced to pay lavrov. vasyl south africa’s statement that they will not execute the warrant is important even for putin. the history of this warrant is very painful

. logic here takaya that outside the borders of the main court it is not strictly it is some kind of semi-social structure presented there that can be ignored especially ua at one time this order was not fulfilled for the president of sudan bashar here the task was takaya it has not been solved well i suppose that if there was a gigantic punishment on ua and so that in general - the yard kept its obligations under part of the rome statute to oblige outside the criminal court everything else is happening in the background you understand that the undermining is going from the bridge and its detonation at the beginning of the week and here are the reactions to it these attacks and the exit from the grain deal well, as if he had predicted in advance, but now this cliff is definitely connected with the destruction of the bridge, moscow wants to take advantage of this situation, well, with appropriate actions in terms of strikes on the ports in odessa, nikolaev is now in odessa with burnt grain, as a result of these strikes, and so on, in order to solve his problem, going beyond the scope of the grain deal, this is definitely related to what moscow will demand on the condition of returning to the deal, which