F-16 Fighting Falcon. AFP file picture

New Delhi: Netherlands could present Ukraine with the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets ought to the war-torn nation ask, the Dutch Foreign Minister stated Thursday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra, throughout a parliamentary debate, stated that the Cabinet will look into supplying F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine if the Kyiv authorities asks for it.
The Cabinet, the minister knowledgeable the Parliament, would take a look at such request with an “open mind”.

The feedback got here in as Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, a Dutch Parliamentarian requested the federal government provide F16s and infantry combating autos to the Ukrainian armed pressure.
Ukraine has lengthy sought the American made fighter jet to battle again the numerically and technologically superior Russian Air Force.
But the US defence officers have stated that Ukraine could have to wait earlier than it could actually swap from the Soviet aircrafts it makes use of to US made programs.

“That doesn’t happen fast. At the end of the day, we’ve got to leverage what they have and offer them some other unique capabilities to make the problem challenging, and then there’s the longer-term view. Clearly, they want to migrate from Russian capabilities to U.S., but that takes some time”, US Air Forces General in Europe commander Gen Jeffrey L. Harrigian informed Air Force Magazine in April 2022

Meanwhile, Netherlands’ Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren, on the Davos World Econmic Summit, stated that her nation was ready to pay for the German Leopard 2 tanks that different nations ship to Ukraine.

Netherlands has 18 of the German-made Leopard 2 tanks. But, it could actually’t ship these tanks to Ukraine, like Poland and Finland, except German agrees to the export.
Germany holds a veto energy over the export of the tanks, thought-about the perfect fitted to Ukraine by consultants.

On Wednesday German officers had stated they might ship the Leopards to Ukraine as quickly as US ships its Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

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