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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that F-16s could be carriers of nuclear weapons, and Moscow would take this into account in its combat operations. | "It’s not only the airplanes, but also the training of the pilots, training of the maintenance and also making sure we have the weapon systems to go with it," US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Brown said. "That is the dialogue that we are having to not only just get to the airplanes but get to a full capability," he said. Kyiv [also] mentioned in early April that five groups of Ukrainian pilots were being trained in flying US F-16 fighter jets in the UK, Denmark, the US, and France. At the end of August 2023, the Netherlands said it would transfer 42 F-16s to Ukraine, while Copenhagen promised Kyiv 19 such machines.
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