1/4 🧵PM #Sunak - This is a crap answer. The notion that #F16’s / 4th Gen fighters are too advanced for this war against #Russia is ludicrous. Here’s why:
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2/4 For nearly a decade, DC, London and other NATO capitals validated the need for next Gen fighters (#F35) on the tech advanced #S300/#S400 air defense threat - both present in the #Ukraine war.
3/4 hence, if politicians remained consistent, they’d argue the #F16 and other 4th Gen fighters are NOT tech advanced enough for the #Ukraine theater with S300/400, as it’s the same argument they used to spend billions to fund the #LightningII.
4/4 Political leaders need to tell the truth about the ‘no’ for fighters - which is likely (a) a ‘no’ to foreign tech release or (b) there’s not coalition political support. Your convenient lies to fit changing conditions are horribly see thru. #DoBetter.
5/x Also worth noting, Su-27s and Su-25s are flying low, out of the S300/400 threat, or getting shot down. To suggest a Western 4gen is ‘too advanced’ given this info is just silly.
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