tim ripley is a journalist, specializing in defense and military affairs. we asked in, wench, which, when should we expect to create in forces to actually be flying the f sixteens? well that's, that's, that is too many and probably been part of those in that because it's, it's not just in case of training pilots, you have to train over maintainers, you have to, uh, set up lots of enabling forces to try and support the craft. so, i mean, you just are see for, or the planes is really the easy, but it's turning of the planes into a part of a military aviation combat system that is a difficult thing for the pregnancy. and if you look at her, the, that the british americans or mental nato operated in 1991 go for either ask any stem libya. the western way of using these activities as part of a system, you have 8 worked radar planes to fund the enemy funds as you have counting planes to defeat the, the research to a, me so, so you have refueling turned on kind of stuff that gets the plane to the point and you phrase, don't have any of that at the moment. they just

tim ripley is a, during the specializing in defense and military affairs. he joins us now from london. thanks for joining us here on dw. so training will take several months. could you take an informed guess as to how many months exactly, uh, before you premium forces will be flying f sixteens and combat? well that's, that's, that is too many and probably been part of those in that because it's, it's not just the kinds of training pilots you have to train over maintainers, you have to, uh, set up lots of enabling forces to try and support the craft. so i mean, just to actually, for the planes is really easy, but it's turning other planes into a part of a military aviation combat system. that is a difficult thing for the pregnancy. i mean, if you look at her, the, the, the british americans, old gym angel, nato operated in 1991 go for the rest goes down to libya. the western way of using these activities as part of a system, you have 8 worked radar planes to fund the enemy funds as you have counting planes to defeat the, the, and the research to a, me so, so