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in thousands of films and sports, i am oleksandr sklyar, born and raised in kharkiv, in a city that suffers from russian weapons every day, i know that poltava has become a home for tens of thousands of displaced persons, and for me it is a second hometown, where the best years of my career have passed . life, of course, the news feed reports about but they don't know much about what's happening, you need to understand antin borkovsky and the invitation experts soberly assess the events and analyze them by modeling our near future that saturdays at 1:00 p.m. with a repeat at 10:00 p.m. studio event with anton borkovsky nayspresso in june 2023 espresso tv channel continues to lead the top of ukrainian informational tv channels

you according to the measurement data viewers choose ukrainian ones view from espresso congratulations friends mykola veresen vitalik avtobro - health to all . thank you ukrainians for their trust. espresso works for you, i congratulate you, dear viewers, on the air of the espresso tv channel, the studio program, the event, we will analyze the most important events of this week in our today's guest, peter greenburgh, an american military pilot. a man who has worked more than a dozen hours on f-16 fighters, markfegin, a figure of the russian opposition, will also work on our air. our current guest, peter greenburgh , an american military pilot, volunteer and military instructor

. no peter, thank you for the invitation, i am very pleased how much f16 can change the situation on the battlefield well, i would just like to ask you to tell me what they represent with you as a person who has spent more than one hundred hours on f-16 planes, the good news is that the f-16 is a very successful system, they have been used for a long time, they are well assembled and many countries use them, it is important to understand that it is more than just an airplane than just a physical shell, you know, wings, an engine, these things are part of a larger system, it includes sensors, weapons, radars, and even more important, the entire system that supports in 16, including the intelligence surveillance system, which in itself includes many things. i believe that the main thing for the f-16 is when they will work successfully in ukraine is that they will in a certain way add to the defense of ukraine, they will protect both the urban infrastructure and the civilian population, and i think they will help ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield

. has very modern advanced technology it is still of the same generation as well as russian planes and in fact even older generation than the latest russian surface-to-air missiles it would be too optimistic to think that f-16 even a significant number of them can simply swoop in and then clear everything of enemy surface-to-air missiles and clear the sky of enemy planes so this is a very complex and difficult problem to solve which the western forces nato forces have spent huge amounts of money tactics weapons and technologies not all of these

technology will arrive in ukraine, the point is that it is quite likely that a small number of f16 pilots will arrive in ukraine, by definition, they will be novices on their planes, so i would expect a very gradual and, unfortunately, very slow integration of the f-16, the overall system, the overall picture of the war to understand . systems and what 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 that 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 them 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 won't end like that the f 16 will be a supplement to the military

effort that is already happening so now ukrainian pilots bravely fly the planes they have and do 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 getting close to 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 f-16s are just going to jump in and solve all the problems is it's beautiful but it's false what we know yes it's 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 are working on on the other hand we understand what we are talking about f16 and we understand that this preparation has to be

comprehensive and it is not only 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 directions 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 give 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

i am sure from what 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 a pilot who, for example, worked before on a mig-29, is that all? is pilot training difficult? first of all, it is necessary to understand that pilot training is only part of the problem. also, the problems of supply logistics must be solved. the technicians who repair aircraft must learn to do this. this is a completely different aircraft system than the one with which they are now familiar. it is best to say that the training will last not weeks, but not years, but months. it will take several months to train ukrainian

mig-29 pilots so that they can fly on 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 mig-29 uses a certain set of western weapons, for example, harm missiles to serve air defense systems against the enemy, they drop gps-guided munitions and other storm-type missiles, save 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 difficult to use and be able to d 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. we need speed and conditions and to make these things happen, it's very difficult on an aircraft that was not designed for this . will be even more successful with the new modern one the equipment that, in your opinion, should be in ukraine in order to firmly say that we are now dominating 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 gain air planning despite the enormous resistance of the russian military, they have good equipment , their planes are not bad

lagging behind western technologies, but still me i don't know how much it takes 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 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 far behind can defend the airspace of cities, it will not have a direct effect on the front line and will have indirect f16 the more f16 will be able to defend cities and infrastructure, the more and other systems can be used closer to the front line, this effect is adaptive to f16 ukrainians can use other systems

. has not even on the front line and being beyond the radio range of enemy systems or aircraft, 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 of 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 . will not be able to

move forward, so they will most likely move back, i make promises, but i only say that the weapons that will become possible for use will destroy the army that has frozen in position, we understand that you can practice your skills for a very long time on simulator chairs 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 combat. i am impressed by what your pilots are doing now, based on very old information about how the ukrainian pilots years ago are actually quite a lot now new tactics and weapons have appeared, based on old knowledge, i can say that the main thing is that western planes provide the pilot with much more information and opportunities for actions , they make it possible to conduct operations more freely and make decisions already in the air in real time, which is not available now on those old planes, simply because the pilot will have more

information. 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 such a way that will surprise the 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 this case they will feel the difference in 16 this the quality of the old button on the phone, go 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 the battle are located right under your fingers, you are surrounded by two computer screens and also a display that you can pass to them to show everything so that you can potentially be interested in allies from friendly planes, enemy forces and means, there is a lot that needs to be learned, but i am sure that ukrainian pilots will not be surprised by

western tactics and the present way like 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 address president biden, well, in historical parallels, to president roosevelt, and you would have to voice your needs. that is how you would say dear mr. president, in order to achieve or achieve extremely specific results on the battlefield in particular, for example, in the south of our state in the south of ukraine, i need not know 50 or 100 f16 20 petrov batteries and 150 storm shadow or i do not know scalp rockets and so on as you assess the number of this complex that

could change the situation on the battlefield a great question is a great question to answer it i needed the level of computer science, but what are the ukrainian and the use of different systems . were in ukraine in peacetime held military exercises in 2011 and 2009, and then f16 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 for. if ukraine - the ukrainian government asks for something, then the basic answer should be yes, and then investigate whether there are possible reasons why not. i don't know all the decisions that are made. but in february 202 on the 2nd, i thought that

they would need it in the 16th. i'm ready to go it took a little time to come true, i could say, for example, that 100 planes are needed and so on, but i will also say that a lot is needed to get this plane into the air, support, a lot of equipment is needed, it is correct that it is necessary to make sure that there are landing places and the location of these systems before they arrive in ukraine, but i am also disappointed, like many ukrainians, that it took so long to get really the best weapons to defend our country, we can imagine the front line and the temporarily occupied ones or other cities that the russians have turned into fortified areas? well, i don’t know, we’re 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, to destroy a tank column under melitopol, yes, and accordingly, we understand that on the one hand, our radars are working, russian radars are working , the satellite tracking system is working, we understand that the air defense systems are already heated

up to red. of the same color well, it should be accordingly squaders we say to do work then we need to destroy all russian tanks in ukraine, and they are many f16 may not be the best choice for this specific task when you look at the tactical problems of such an operation, the main thing is to make the enemy retreat correct troops then implies and though local control of the airspace because you need enough freedom of action to find such small mobile targets as tanks, it is not an easy and very difficult task even for such a weapon, the smaller and mobile the target, the closer you need to get to it. if you use weapons from a long distance based on where the tanks were a few hours ago, they can simply already

be in another place . there are weapons that simply hit and explode. to be and not the best choice with a particular place is what they do when planning an operation assessing the capabilities of weapons to achieve the goal on the battlefield we do not know how they will use f16 things that we imagine even from how they imagine pilots that are based on the experience of participating in hostilities or in this way. the way to the battlefield

and appearance in the necessary place well at the same time we 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 the help of missiles with the help of their aircraft, they took and killed ten lviv residents in one night, they took and killed several odessans or residents of mykolaiv, they use aviation to attack civilian objects and civilian cities . of their pilots who would have entered the combat zone having western fighter jets in the role of air defenders 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 so accurate. the strike people, we don't know this, it will be known later in the courts, but the f16 has the ability to destroy cruise missiles, which are difficult to defend against, the f-16 has the ability to destroy drones, which are very difficult to defend against because they are small and slow, they are difficult to detect, which anything in this war, new equipment does not solve all problems at once, when the patriots arrived, many people said that well, all the patriots here will not be like that anymore and of course, the new attacks were f16 will be an addition to this as well said it would 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 the opportunity to move the ground air defense systems somewhere else and protect other locations in general, what is happening in the so-called market of combat pilots, are there any bans in these or other countries, for example, there is one or the other, 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 the ukrainian state would say listen, dear john, we need you. this is a difficult question. the f16 in the world may have produced 4,000 planes over the years, so of course there are many pilots in the 16. we must not forget that the f-16 is a system that functions within a larger system . you are

on different versions of 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 pilot training costs millions of dollars, as well as access to information, so if you imagine that a nato pilot just got off the plane and would like to come, you simply do not have the 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 before a huge military effort, you can be in another part of the country in a minute, 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 adopt world experience , there will be instructors and experts, but most likely it will be ukrainian pilots who will defend their country on the f16, peter yours the first

combat sortie, more precisely, your feeling under the time of the first combat sortie i don't want to disappoint you but my combat experience is not very exciting very rare is close combat aircraft vs aircraft competition there are maybe five or six guys left who remember what it's like to close combat shoot down the enemy 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 the guys on the ground, so of course i was worried, but probably more so that i could successfully complete the task

to help and ensure the survival of the boys on the ground and so that they can successfully complete their mission, so the mother-in-law has a much more difficult task, they are in danger all the time, i honestly have no doubts about their bravery. i have two hours of airtime in the winter hours of your time, two hours to find out about the war and what the world is like, 2 hours to keep abreast of economic news and new sports, two hours in the company of favorite presenters, presenters who have become likeable to many, as well as distinguished guests of the studio, the events of the day in two hours, vasyl zimi's big broadcast, a project for the intelligent and those who care in the evening, nayspresso, the war in ukraine, the main topic for ukrainians, victories and losses , analysis and forecasts, politics and geopolitics , serhii rudenko and

his guests will talk about all this programs people who have information and shape public opinion, the people who defend ukraine and create the future are now the main and interesting thing in the program: the verdict by serhiy rudenko from monday to friday at 20:00, repeat at 12:10, now the espresso studio will work mark feigin, a figure of the russian opposition in emigration, a former member of the state duma, an iconic video blogger, glory to ukraine, mark, i congratulate you all, anton well, marco putin has been in trouble for a long time, but he is not like south africa comes from the other side, we understand that he is seriously starting

to raise the barbaric stakes in particular about the next airstrikes, the next strikes on our civilian objects within the limits of what is called putin's attempt to disrupt the grain initiative, this is brics, this was predictable, we predicted it, not a trip, because even if the president of south africa, romofoska, declared that they would ignore the legal obligation in the international criminal court, he would not rush to go. yes, this is a long distance, 12,500 kilometers, he will fly by plane in a troubled region, where he will be killed anyway this plane, by the way, is not necessarily completely off the ground, it is enough for him apparently, there are clearly ill-wishers in power . russian god knows how heaven would have dealt with this. so putin, it is predictable, did not go, primarily because of security issues. as for this situation itself, but he did not decide on the diplomatic

task, it was important to go. one country will not execute it, only the second one and the third one. well, the logic here is that beyond the limits of the main court, it’s not purely he, it’s some kind of semi-communal out-represented structure that can be ignored, especially since south africa at one time did not execute this order for the president of sudan