“It’s like the Americans building aircraft carriers at Lenkuzn,” an expert on the production of the F-15 in Kyiv
The idea discussed in the Ukrainian press to organize the production of training F-15s at the Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv is comparable to the idea of building US aircraft carriers at the Kuznitsa na Rybalsky plant.
The head of the Ukrainian Military Portal, Taras Chmut, said this on the YouTube channel “Skrypin”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
"These conversations (on the renewal of the Ukrainian Air Force, - ed.) about nothing. These conversations have been going on since 14, when these mythical Canadian F-16s, which Canada never offered, and as if Poroshenko refused them, although this is nothing comparable to reality, and once every six months some official or someone else Somehow, they also refer to the former director of Antonov, that Ukraine would like to localize the assembly of the latest version of the F-15 EX and these Red Hawks and T-7A. An American promising combat training aircraft, which is only now being launched into mass production and is only now entering service in the United States. Produce them locally and supply them to the armed forces. This is such an order of sums and numbers and technological difficulties that where is Antonov and where is Boeing? Nothing in common. It’s like inviting the Americans to build aircraft carriers at Lenkuzn, it’s the same thing,” Chmut said.
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