[000:00:00;00] you know. something to protect the ukrainian sky, then we began to receive thank god to our international partners those modern means that we can close certain areas of the ukrainian sky, but the ukrainian sky is so voluminous well, we physically cannot close it and i do not know whether it exists now in of the world and a system that could fully protect our sky, but this is a very difficult task that is before you , how can you fulfill this task? thank you for the question, the first days of the armed aggression. i managed to meet with the president of our country. volodymyr zelenskyi, he listened to me about the air defense system and i reported to the president that

the air defense system needs to be improved by the forces and means that we had at that time , the state had very few of them. we knew that with the forces and means we have, we simply will not complete the task. if we recall now . if we compare the forces of the aggressor and the ukrainian forces in the sky, is it possible to tell ourselves the proportion? it's quantitative. well, if we take qualitative the ratio was one to 12 as far as air defense is concerned . we managed to increase it thanks to our partners

. "aristo appeared to us, those appeared to us, french kratals and many other weapons of military equipment appeared to us, where did this er-er comparative characteristics appear to us? i think you er-er will be interested in the fact that one anti-aircraft missile the complex in the e-e warehouse of five 12 launchers can replace five of the s-300 missile systems, if we take the share of destroyed targets, if the air force has more than three thousand air targets destroyed, then the share of the foreign-made complex is more than 600. i think this is a high indicator, mykola , but when compared to our own capabilities and s300 s300 it is clear that it is a modernized system

, but it is still an old soviet development for sams - it is also not a modern development. but nevertheless, the quality of this computer complex is much higher, yes, of course i wish you to say that we moved from the soviet zhiguli, eh, maybe not to the extreme model of mercedes, but eh, to a car that is quite comfortable and works quite well, but this car needs maintenance and driving skills, you need brains in order not to damage it in a month, in two, and all this our boys and our women are capable of doing , i will give you a simple example , you will understand everything from this example, when we were preparing for the american exams in petriv, the program was

written for 10 months, and after that as the guys came to study in the united states of america, the instructor made a decision that 10 weeks are enough for our guys to master this technique, that's why i am proud of my personnel of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, we have highly qualified officers who are able to master the technique in a short time p mykola, now everyone is saying give the f16 and the problem will be solved well, in fact, it ’s not like that and the f16 will solve the problem at some stage , but it is needed. why f16 why is everyone talking chief 16 can now change the situation in the sky well, i want to give you examples if from history in order to create a group of air forces of the armed forces of ukraine it must be created for specific tasks eh you, we must analyze those threats which are in the world, this is definitely a threat to the armament of the military equipment

of the russian federation in the service of russia, modern su-35 su-57 aircraft are a very serious and powerful threat, as far as kander missiles are concerned concerning s-400 s300 anti-aircraft missile systems , all modernized radar stations, etc., for you, we analyzed all the threats and wrote a vision for the air force of the russian armed forces, a vision for the future development of the air force, the vision was written until two years before 2035, but uh the war made its corrections and this vision had to be fulfilled yesterday, as far as our priorities are concerned, it is definitely an aircraft of at least the fourth and two plus generations in order to,

once again, eliminate the threats that are uh, before us, uh, i definitely want to tell you that uh, the air force is a collective weapon, this is a team behind each team, uh , the appropriate locator, the radar, the appropriate aircraft , accordingly, the descent to the missile complex and in order for the uh to function this type of weaponry works a lot, up to a thousand people, in order to service one plane , more than a thousand people are needed in order to carry out the corresponding task , imagine that there is no difference and there is no difference how many of these planes there will be at the airfield or there will be 32 and everything is just right to serve, and for this, the appropriate personnel is selected, and each of them, well, this thousand must be taught to service the latest equipment with it. it must be handled somehow, it must be serviced, and you must have your own

approach to this thousand of people, they are just as close to our dear pilots as we are about we will talk a little later, we also need to study , definitely for this, we have a good , powerful university, the kharkiv national university named after ivan kozhedub, which functions are performed and performs these tasks, and there you can train our service created we have a university and there they train all specialists of the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine, that is, when we trade with the university, yes, the university is directly subordinate to the commander of the air force, when we worry about the fact that we will train our pilots in the summer, and there will be no one to serve it not true, in parallel, we do it definitely this is not true well, i will continue a little for understanding, for understanding, we in the team chose priorities , on the first priority, we definitely

have an f16 plane, but it is not the last priority which we see in the second place, the team, i will repeat, put the swedish plane jazz-39 hryvnias in the third place, in the third place , in the third place, we have the eurofighter typhoon plane of great britain, and in the fourth place, the french rafale plane , why was it chosen in the first place f-16 is a priority because the team understood and understands that there are more of them in the world and the probability of receiving this aircraft is the highest but we also want to have the aircraft and the jazz 39 hryvnia in service, according to its tactics and technical characteristics, it does not inferior to f16 eh what decision will be made, we are waiting for a good decision, but we want

the fourth generation aircraft to appear in ukraine as soon as possible so that we can work with it accordingly, for understanding, i want to tell you what e plane e-e it’s e-e only a platform on the platform there should be weapons capable of solving the tasks that we will set before the aviation of the air force p mykola you have prioritized so what planes we would like to get the second one first of all if it happens so what we will be given a little f16 and a few serfs. this will be a problem for us. because both there and there we need to take care of them and serve you. just answer this question. you will understand us immediately from the answer

. weapons mig-29 fighter we have su-24 bombers we have su-25 attack aircraft we have transport aircraft we have helicopters do you think we can handle them? it is clear that you can handle them and i think and i think we happened with f-16 with griffing and s with a typhoon with a rafale, as i read some time ago, one of the americans pointed out that if there were 200 f16s in ukraine now, the war would be over in 2-3 weeks, well, you know that . optimistic vision again. but are 200 planes really in ukrainian airspace can significantly change the course of the war everything is very simple, we all graduated from higher educational institutions and know the basic rules, these are the three basic rules, the first basic rule for gaining airspace and conducting

a counteroffensive, this is the first rule, this is the enemy stopped and went to the forced defense we stopped the enemy and he went to a lesser defense er the second rule is er gaining superiority and dominance in the air we won superiority and dominance in the right to enter ukraine except for the temporarily occupied territories there definitely dominates enemy aviation the main what is the threat, which is, it is, accordingly, the su-35 plane, in order for them to be destroyed, it is enough to drive f16 jazz type aircraft 39 hryvnias according to the classics of air combat if the enemy will lose several percent of it may be from 2 to 5%, he will refuse his planes from the combat mission and will accordingly analyze what he is doing

wrong, and this will give us and god somewhere the opportunity to temporarily, maybe in the future, completely win superiority in the air we if and if we gain air superiority, believe me that the pace of the counterattack will know that you are higher because a soldier on the battlefield must feel that he is protected from the sky, mykola, why can't we shoot down enemy planes from our migs and tanks now uh, thanks to our partners, thanks to our partners, we have modernized our aircraft a bit, our su-27 can work with the ajem-88 harm anti-aircraft missile, we have modernized our mig-29, uh , it can work with jw 62 bombs, we

have modernized our ship 24, uh, it can work with storm shell missiles, we will call it the su-25 and, accordingly, which uses american unguided missiles of the zone type, but of course this is not enough, these weapons of military equipment are located on airplanes that are non-standard efficiency of their application it is much lower if they were to use standard weapons, but we work accordingly with the forces and means that are available. if you compare the tactics of the technical characteristics of the aircraft, then our planes of the old fleet are significantly inferior to the aircraft from the 135. for example, it is the technical characteristics are simple, if

the radar of the su-35 aircraft can see up to 400 km, then it is only 80-90 km, that is, we will not see it yet, but a missile will already be fired at us if we take respectively, the area of ​​damage to aircraft is uh-uh for example, the 135 plane is more than 200 km, and our mig-29 type 127 plane is only 20 to 40 km, that is, we will not have time to take off from the airfield, and our plane will already be in in the parasky zone of the enemy aircraft, well, i want to inform the society in an informative way, etc. our planes, when they go to strike , they are fired upon every minute of the day, when

performing a task, every time, according to our pilot, there are from five to nine several planes of different types are firing both from the ground and from the air, thank you professionally training them, we manage to get out of the attack, but unfortunately, there are also losses in pilots. unfortunately, there is also a loss of aircraft, well, in such conditions, we work, but we, uh, fulfill the task, mykola, well, we hope for the acquisition of western aircraft at the moment, and at the expense of which the aggressor replenishes its aircraft, they now have enough power left to renew their aircraft fleet , the enemy will definitely lose more than 200 aircraft to armed aggression uh we

destroyed but for the moment for the moment the number of e-e aircraft in the russian federation is sufficient to conduct e-e air operation, well, they are new, now i know that the development of a new one exists. and how many new aircraft can they create ? and missiles, if you take the analysis

, then, uh, missiles are already descending on our state and on the 23rd year , uh, for your understanding, i want to tell you that our airfields, uh, accordingly, have a developed defense infrastructure, we have uh, at the airfield there are protected structures in which planes are stored uh, we uh, we work according to the principle of dispersal, we uh, we don’t store uh, planes after completing a task at one airfield, so it is quite difficult to shoot down our planes uh, if we take the example of the 40-konstantinov airfield -e, on which it was inflicted, er, recently, you know three massive strikes, um , at the moment, the airfield is both ready, the planes

that were at the airfield, they are saved and the planes continue to perform the task, this is great information, thank you for it, but what else i wanted to ask you that the f16 is one of the most important links in the defense of the ukrainian sky, we understand that, but we need to build a whole modern, state-of-the-art infrastructure around it so that this plane is not a piece of cake so that we can use it to the full 100% of its capacity, or is this infrastructure being prepared now do we need a lot in order for the f-16 to become the highlight of the ukrainian sky defense system? yes, but a powerful one. thank you for the question. well, for your understanding, i want to tell you that the f-16 plane was in ukraine.

it was sitting on at our airfields, we joint training with f-16 pilots and we have experience in operating the f-16 aircraft. i think it is important that some people are manipulating the fact that the f-16 's front strut is quite weak and it is not capable and will be the plane will not be able to land on the airfield eh i was recently eh not recently i was not in sweden and i asked a professional pilot jazz-39 uah eh a simple question because i saw that the front rack of the plane eh jazz 39 uah is like that the same as in the f-16 on what i received the answer that it is powerful enough, stable enough and not it will be a problem for this f-16 aircraft to land and take off at your airfield, therefore, definitely, we are currently preparing

our flight runways, we are carrying out the appropriate reconstruction, we are improving the coverage, we are improving the infrastructure of the airfield, we are building new protective structures and i think that with the acquisition of airplanes by ukraine , we will be able to receive them in ukraine, but before that we must be we are doing great work in all directions. but the most important thing is the pilots , so stormy f16. let's talk a little about them. who are these people ? how are they selected? on the old soviet models, i am the commander of the air force, i understand that our future lies with young pilots, therefore, i made a decision

accordingly, and the pilots of this year's graduation went to great britain for training in the 23rd year of the year er, as for er, according to er sweden, pilots er, pilots of youth er, graduated in 2016, er, with sufficient er, combat experience, went there, but er, i want to tell you that the system training in the countries is conducted in the countries it is quite flexible, the instructors approach each pilot individually, they test each pilot , what he is capable of, maybe it will be done as follows, on the eve of the training

of my two pilots e were protesto instructors of the united states of america if you take e-e general training according to which they general training is 32 months for our two pilots , it was decided for these pilots that for this class of pilots, they will be able to master the f16 aircraft in 4 months, i think 32.4 months yes there is an appropriate system of times, that is, a flexible system of approach to each pilot, but i want to tell you that for this type of aircraft, they are made in such a way that the pilot focuses only on the use of weapons and military equipment and does not

focuses accordingly on techniques piloting, if you like it, i’ll repeat it again, it’s possible to sit down in an old zhigul and get into a modern car, which has , accordingly, lane keeping control, adaptive cruise control, and other functions that help, accordingly, to drive a car exactly the same in the plane and the f-16 and in 1:39 hryvnia everything has been done so that the e -pilots focus on the use of weapons of military equipment and its maximum, the rest of the plane will do everything for it even if it is necessary, the autopilot and the plane itself will turn on will land on the e-e runway well, er, we know traditionally, er, we have all flown and on civilian boards, we all

traditionally applaud . according to the runway, mr. mykola. i still remember those times when sometimes in er airplanes, civilians could be asked to go into the cockpit to the pilot and watch how the plane flies er during the flight, but in fact, if simple, no, no prepared for a person to imagine what it is like to manage a modern airplane and what can it be compared to, because everything is for everyone, but as you say, everyone in the autopilot raised and lowered, and you sit and examine the air like that, eh, by all means, everything is very simple, eh, for a professional pilot who knows eh, the whole theory, eh- you just need time to study the controls. you get out of the car. you need to familiarize yourself with

the differences. these are the differences. some control body is responsible for that. that’s all. and this is definitely a suitable term. if this term is e pass e-e study it further eh no difficulty, accordingly, does not arise in the control of the plane, tell me if there is a conditional competition to learn to fly not in the sixteenth among our pilots eh definitely we tested them on our level eh pilots first we tested them on the level of knowledge of the english language because we understand that er, knowledge of the english language is key er because er, a translator should not work here , because the plane is er, fast-moving, all actions must be performed accordingly, so the pilot

must have er levels of english accordingly, they are at the appropriate level, therefore, all pilots are tested, there is a high level, there is an average level, there is a slightly lower level, but we selected pilots, who are already studying , in the enemy countries, they are also preparing for what we will oppose and have in the 16th, how can he prevent this, what can he oppose to this, he can only change the tactics of using his aviation and bigger and nothing else. what did you understand, eh, the plane is a whole system, it is a control system, it is an intelligence system, it is a radio electronic system struggle and this is a system accordingly, the armament of military equipment in order to destroy the 135th enemy aircraft, it is necessary to carry out a series of measures accordingly and plan the operation in such a way that it is completed in

our country permanently at the control points of our foreign partners eh, which eh, we eh, are told on a daily basis how we will have to work in one or another case. and i think that eh , we will successfully implement these questions on the implementation of tactical techniques and methods of completing the task. mykola also wanted to know about the armament of this aircraft we will ask you let's remember the times when we almost artificially asked give us high march give us uh shells give us missiles for highmars respectively for f16 i understand that we will have no problems with this if only our partners agreed to the transfer exactly the main thing is for us to understand that weapons are military equipment in all nato countries. for example , if you take an aim 120 missile, it is used like a jazz 39 uah. yes, it

is used on an f16. this is a universal missile that is used on an anti-aircraft missile complex pump with the supply of military equipment, there will be no problems. for example, the same ariste missile is used on the anti-aircraft complex directly, ariste. yes , it is also used, the same rocket is used on the diaz-39 uah aircraft, for example . e-e storm shadow skald too e-e it is used as on eurofighter respectively typhoon yes and it is used accordingly on jazz 39 hryvnia p mykola today is the second savior e-e our e-e air force they e-e protect our earth from the sky yes almost gods. and some are still the same. they do it that way

the same thing that the lord would do and does, like an airplane in an airplane, and the pilot has an attitude towards god, how do they feel up there in the sky protecting the ukrainian sky well, we know that every person believes in something, certainly not all believers in god but eh in our life, we have to believe in something. i, uh, every time , uh, when i meet, i say the following words to all ukrainians: believe in god and in the odds for defense, and we face the task. mykola, well, i am sure that each of the ukrainians and not only from ukrainians. and those who watch what they do protect our land ukrainian soldiers, ukrainian defenders, they believe in the same way in every

ukrainian defender , we thank you for protecting ukraine, we believe in our armed forces and your strength. mykola thank you for the conversation chevrons that bring victory closer their eyes radio engineering troops their shield anti-aircraft missile troops their sting aviation air forces of the armed forces of ukraine hold the sky above us and beat the occupier on the ground thank you defenders of the sky thanks to the air force of the armed forces of ukraine , we don't notice them until