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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Countries don’t just have dozen and dozens of jets lying around. Western European countries have been underfunding their militaries for decades and are operating with a threadbare force pool. The Netherlands air force has 24 F-16s. Denmark has 30. Their military brass are understandably reluctant to hand over half their airforce if they can barely sustain the minimum necessary to meet their commitments as it is. Even hawkish Poland says it doesn’t have enough F-16s to supply Ukraine with any. Then there are legal barriers - Germany had to actually change its constitution to allow it to sell weapons to a country at war.
Europe isn’t sitting on their hands. They’re engaged in the biggest military buildup the continent has seen since the Cold War. The problem is that Western Europe had been at peace for a long time, and modern warfare consumes armaments at an astonishing rate.
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You should go to the bone yard in Tucson Arizona. I think they have over 300 type 1000 F-16 aircraft just sitting there. Type 1000 being they are mothballed but in working order for future use.