Poland To Send MIG-29 Jets To Ramstein Air Base

[L. Coyote]

Poland will be sending MIG-29 fighter jets to the Ramstein Air Base in Germany and has asked the U.S. to backfill them with appropriate aircraft. NBC's Dan De Luce and Courtney Kube discuss what this move could mean amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[questionseverything]

1. Listening to the report, it is still a big maybe that poland will send planes

It all depends on the United States “ backfilling “

[mitch96]

3. "backfilling " A new MSM buzz word.. I guess it use to be "replace"...

I'm gonna go "backfill" the depleted toilet paper
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[questionseverything]

4. So it will be us giving the planes

My question is , can the president do this or does congress have to act?

I think the announcement is way ahead of itself

[mitch96]

5. The US govt has already sold about 48 F-16 to Poland so the path is already their and probably

already OK'd by congress. That's my best guess. It will be a purchase from General Dynamics to Poland with the US looking over everybody's shoulder. YMMV
Now getting the newly acquired MIG29's with Ukrainian marking INTO Ukraine will be the trick. russia has spy satellite's also...
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[questionseverything]

6. The new guardian article says

The pentagon says, “polands proposal is not tenable “

[mitch96]

7. "Poland's proposal is not tenable " I'd say that also if I wanted to keep the russians guessing nt

[questionseverything]

8. You need to read the article but unfortunately no one is sending planes

I find it extremely cruel that nations are pretending they might

[mitch96]

9. Do you have the link? I still think there is a lot of back channel stuff going on to make it work

and not start a global war. All irons in the fire..
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[questionseverything]

10. I can't post a link from my phone but

Latest threads has new ops about it

For the record I hope you are correct and planes are in the works

[usaf-vet]

2. My question is who will fly those MIG-29 jets? Are there Ukraian pilots for the MIG-29.

And who will keep them maintained? And where will they be based?

Oops! The extended video explained most of those issues.