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Almost certainly is. Quality isn't there but they have numbers.

Oh I know.. and I know we've all watched these atrocities happen for the last year , without being able to do anything physically to help .

The strength and courage of everyone is unimaginable, to carry on living in whatever way shape or form, is humbling .

There seem to to be two scenarios, but only one seems likely to me.

Training non pilots to be fighter pilots from scratch; then Hawks are useful, but it's going to take longer than anyone wants this conflict to last and then they still need to be trained to a UK fighter type which gets handed over.

The second is training of experienced pilots to fly UK fighters. This seems to me more likely, in which case the Hawks are not really of any use as they are another type they need to learn and convert to and SU-27 and Mig-29 pilots don't need to learn the basics.

I think they would start on a type specific simulator for the typhhoon, Unless the US whispered the magic F-35 word in their ear, but that seems very unlikely given their general practice to date of only allowing neutered systems go to Ukraine and Biden vetoing even F-16s.

The US colonel familiar with joint ops with Ukrainian pilots estimated only 3 months to train them on F-15s so this should be the same - 3 months training on Typhoons and then a decision as to whether they are given them or not, unless that's already been made.

The British have just moved a piece on the board that really signals western resolve. Well done. It's probably got US elected representatives looking at each other and going 'did they just do that?'

Can't see them getting typhoons being they have only limited numbers themselves and the British experts say it could take up to 5 Years to effectively train a single typhoon pilot in all aspects of the aircraft,

While we had talks of everything from f16s,A10s,Saabs ,F15s it will be the same case of rumors are great as well as wishful thinking, but we have seen zero commitments to any modern Western aircraft,

Which case leads to training Ukrainian pilots for possible future aircraft purchases , longer term thinking,so we're back to the hawks which is the current go to trainer for UK aircraft ,no Europen countries fly the F15s and only a few Operate f16s , while some are moving to the F35s ukraine won't be seeing or getting them in the next decade or two ,

We've seen how long discussions on tanks has taken, pretty much 12 months and so far none have actually arrived in Ukraine bar the 3 from Canada currently on Poland,

While various parties are talking F15s and F16s which is all good but the moment one is shown getting shot down in Ukraine, support for sending more would dry up pretty quick,

Really? are you saying that every mercenary outfit has the same level of standards and operationality as Wagner? They recruit from prisons, and sledgehammer their recruits if they get out of line? You have some proof of this? Because from what I've seen and heard about the US outfits especially, they were rather fussy about who they took on. Proven military service and active service history for starters, and definitely not the same model as Wagner, who took anyone they could get, and when you have to stoop to using convicts, that's pretty low.

To go through your questions one by one

Canadian Leopard 2's have already arrived in Poland, will likely cross the border soon. However long it takes a cargo ship to get to a friendly country. Thousands of pieces of equipment have been delivered to Ukraine, some just takes longer to arrive than others. There's also training to factor in (although sometimes training operates in tandem with the deliveries to speed the process up). Most equipment seems to flow through Poland. Ukraine's rail system is not destroyed.

Transported across Ukraine. Driven to frontlines.

I'm getting a strange feeling of deja-vu with these questions

One thing to consider with regards to what is being announced is that none of us have a clue what is happening in reality.

I'd suspected for a while now that what's being announced by politicians is the delayed truth. That was confirmed today when Rishi Sunak said (standing in front of the ukrainian tankers training with the challengers) something like "our tanker instructors have informed me that some of you are already better than them after just some weeks of training". Keeping in mind that the challengers were only announced to being sent at all a few weeks ago. So these guys were already earmarked or probably had already begun basic training on the Challengers well in advance of the announcement.

Same thing applies to fighter jets. I doubt very much the British defense would be announcing that they're training Ukranians on some NATO air hardware if there hadn't already been some training plan made(or indeed actual training done). And probably IMO a type of fighter Jet (Typhoons? F16s?) earmarked for future sending. It would just be a colossal waste of time and resources to train them if that wasn't the case. And indeed they really don't need to. Why give the Russians any sort of heads up on what will be patrolling the skies in the coming months/year?

Training times in a war are not the same as in peacetime.

Ukraians are proving quick on the uptake in Challenger 2 training.

When Sunak said it nomaly takes 3 years to train a pilot, Zelensky quipped that the'd be sending pilots with 2.5 years training.

Gazprom wants to form an army now to protect it's hydrocarbon empire Russia is starting to mutate

There has been multiple columns of tanks pictured on their way to Ukraine, once there, the location will be classified until they are used.

Why? Because they're not stupid like the russians have been with their battle tactics (or stupid like posters asking where the tanks are).

That's your answer.

What's the next russian shill talking point you just want to ask questions about?

What's your bet on how long the mudspud account will last? Valentines day maybe?