Ukrainian 🇺🇦 top guns train with NATO F-16 fighter jets in Denmark 🇩🇰

At an airbase in Denmark, the Danish Air Force has been training the next generation of Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
A coalition of NATO Allies, including Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, has agreed to donate their F-16s to the Ukrainian Air Force. As part of the deal, Danish instructors at Skrydstrup Air Base are training Ukrainian pilots, technicians and ground crew how to fly and maintain the F-16. The first jets will enter service later this year.
The Ukrainian pilots are full of praise for the F-16, noting its responsive controls and agile flight features.
The F-16 is an advanced multirole fighter, which will replace Ukraine’s aging fleet of MiG-29 Fulcrums and Su-27 Flankers. Speedy, highly manoeuvrable and capable of carrying a wide range of ordnance, the F-16 will significantly strengthen Ukraine’s ability to continue defending its airspace and territory against Russia's war of aggression.
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[@dashippo4372]

Thank you, Denmark!

[@biggie4310]

Thank you Denmark for your contribution to Ukraines defense

[@sogerc1]

Looks like the trollskies haven't found this channel yet, which is weird.

[@gbu31mk84]

😅 you goddamn right ))) opportunity to see real pols between people in internet. Thank you for your efforts to help our country and people.

[@dkozik801]

Trollskies lol too funny. I'm new here . Is that what you guys call haters. That's too funny bro. I love it

[@johnriddington9514]

Yes! They're usually allll over videos like this...

[@13BulliTs]

Imagine, how much noise they create seeing channels like DW german news. It is ridiculous we allow this to happen, while we are locked out from theirs.

[@Christian-ty5vn]

Refreshing to see a comment section without Putin fanatics

[@simonandfaerk]

How fitting that the Majors nametag says "J.DAM" 😂

[@atomf9143]

Full name is Jan Dam. He was born for this.

[@larsrons7937]

Yes. I guess he's training the UA pilots in using those JDAMs. Correction: He's Major *General,* not just Major.

[@jejopayan9315]

NATO STANDS WITH UKRAINE

[@Blazen747]

🫡

[@ColtThurston]

Of course!

[@jeremyj5932]

Yes! From Vancouver Canada.

[@SRoy-jx8my]

It is truly commendable how a small country like Denmark with a population equal to that of Wisconsin in the US can do so much!!

[@juhamikkonen]

Slava Ukrajini!

[@dewetolivier2362]

героям слава!

[@BCAT3089]

those helmets are also a game changer for the Ukrainian pilots

[@ClawsNGloves]

HMD is awesome especially with the datalink.

[@sa1amon89]

I spent 5 years of my life in Denmark and I admire this country and its people. Med al respekt. mange tak!

[@eddale5557]

"Med all respekt, mange takk" 👍

[@EugeneYunak]

yes! it feels great to know NATO is backing us in this fight!

[@GoFullAuto]

PROUD to be NATO!

[@stuchambers297]

God Bless Denmark

[@pixeleye7998]

FINALLY a comment section not flooded with russian bots and trolls, amazing ! it's becoming rare nowadays...

[@ravndrup]

Slava Ukraini

[@parmentier7457]

🇩🇰 Denmark will supply 19 jets 🇳🇱 The Netherlands supplies 18 jets 🇳🇴Norway will supply 2 jets 🇧🇪 Belgium will supply 2 jets The Royal Netherlands Air Force still has 24 F16s in stock and will eventually donate them to Ukraine.

[@martine5923]

Norway i belive but noone mentions that Looks like total of 22 where 12 will be f-16s fullyoperational capable and remaning 10 will be for spearparts etc

[@dkgambituk]

spear parts….think they are bit more modern than that…

[@arselenebitara1356]

Slava Ukraine! 💞💙💛💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❣️🇵🇭

[@bobsanders9500]

Thank you Denmark!

[@jeriksson7686]

Well done Denmark! Man blir stolt som nordbo att vi står vid Ukrainas sida mot tyrannen i öst. 🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮

[@Theolddaysaregone]

The North stands with heroic Ukraine ✊💪💪 Norden står bag heroiske Ukraine!

[@bjorn2625]

Og vi står også ved hinandens side, nu hvor vi alle er i NATO!

[@christopherlng753]

F16: small but mighty, looks simple, runs better than a Ferrari. Smaller than a twin engined mig, but runs rings around it

[@pauljacobs4947]

they just need the longer range radar versions to lock on Russian jets/ air defenses, especially considering Russian jets are launching those damn Glide bombs from long ranges

[@user-cg7kr7xx1q]

Slava Denmark👍🇺🇦🇩🇰🇺🇦🇩🇰

[@DavideProphet]

si vis pacem, para bellum 💪🏻

[@GairaiJo]

Did anyone else notice that the Chief of the Danish Air Force is named JDAM? I wonder if he's had the opportunity to drop any in his career, it would sure be fitting! Thanks for stepping up Danes!

[@larsrons7937]

Yes, the name is fitting. His full name is _Jan Dam_ (I guess that would be "John Pond" in English).

[@Sassuolo8450]

Slava Ukraïni!🇺🇦💙

[@dewetolivier2362]

Heroyam Slava!

[@ftstf2shortsbg]

its intresting to see what NATO is doing.

[@jeshkam]

❤️🇵🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸❤️

[@MelioraCogito]

🟦 Слава Україні! - Glory to Ukraine! 🟨 Героям слава! - Glory to heroes!

[@WallyBDO]

The base commander is named General JDAM you can't write something this on the nose

[@TomKristiansen]

its a slick plane.

[@annamariaesposito2724]

Grazie NATO

[@alexanderleach3365]

Ukraine is going to need the F-16s.

[@VixCorydon]

Its hillarious that Major General Jan Dam has initials J.DAM

[@frederikkjrgaard1963]

Why?

[@sermandet2022]

@@frederikkjrgaard1963 Joint Direct Attack Munition

[@lohikarhu734]

Some guy suggested that the Ukrainian pilots would take a year to transition from SU to F16, based on his experience with vietnam pow returnees...totally different situation, no? These guys are fighting for their lives, families, homeland, not just trying to requalify after a couple of years away.

[@BnAlierenyavuYT]

Ukraine❤❤

[@bananaschmidt2173]

Slava Ukraini from Germany 🇩🇪🇺🇦

[@asynchronicity]

The most elegantly designed fighter ever?

[@salahuddinyusuf]

The orcs in Ukraine should call Kenny Loggins cus they're about to enter the... DANGER ZONE! [sick guitar riff ensues while F-16s fly by]

[@paulvarn4712]

The war in Ukraine is the war the F-16 was designed to fight. The mechanized armies on the ground have to have effective and overwhelming air support to win and not just stalemate.

[@jeffsiegwart]

Slava Ukraini!

[@heinedenmark]

They've been training since August

[@donwyoming1936]

Nope. Four Ukrainians have been in the F-16 Beginner Course in Arizona since October. Training has not gone well. They will take 8 months to complete the 6 month course. The Ukrainian pilots in Denmark started training in Jan 2024 with their maintenance personnel. I've only seen 2 Ukrainian pilots training in Denmark.

[@dankengine5304]

@@donwyoming1936 - Training is going well, but it takes a long time to train on a new aircraft.

[@TheStargoose]

@@donwyoming1936Terror State Russia’s low quality invasion is probably going worse and taking longer.

[@sophisthemlock246]

@@donwyoming1936 My guess is they have to unlearn muscle memory from Soviet planes. With luck they soon will be able to get to the war and defend their nation from the unprovoked and nigh terroristic invasion

[@edwardbernthal160]

@@donwyoming1936 check your facts. Ukrainian pilots started training here in August 2023. I should know as I am 4 km from the base.

[@peekaboo7958]

Thank you denmark belgium the netherlands and norway for that amazing help and for everybody who helps ukraine, Slava ukraini from morocco ✊🏽✊🏽

[@jaakkojokinen1797]

Too many countries in Europe give very little help to Ukraine, Denmark certainly isn’t one of those! Thanks our Danish friends💪🏼

[@thegoat11111]

I hope that there will be no logistical delays on the items that will be needed to keep these aircraft in the fight.

[@MendicantBias1]

Attack! Go get ‘em! Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[@Spp235.]

Well done Denmark!! You are demonstrating political leadership and commitment that embarrassed me as a former Canadian officer given the lack of it here. No we need to get the pilots and the fighters deployed!! Training is great but won’t help if not used.

[@Lyndalewinder]

Thank you Denmark

[@Sceme1991]

J DAM - what an appropriate name for an airforce chief

[@dareklecki]

JDAM 💪

[@BillinHungary]

Another UA pilot training on the F-16 said that compared to their old planes, it is like going from a flip-phone to an iPhone, but without the benefit of all the intermediate steps that we all went through as mobile phone technology evolved.. so it is tough, but they are motivated.

[@DR-pj7sr]

🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸💪

[@NikolausFedermann-im5nf]

Great story - like a Hollywood movie.😂

[@MrNeilcatorce]

I think in modern warfare the 3 most important are 1. Anti Aircraft/Drones 2. Anti Tank/Vehicle 3. Precision Artillery

[@RamblingRodeo]

The F16, US pilots that have flown it, call it a glove that just feels natural in flying it, it is very well built and it responds to the pilot. Id have to say that the F16 is a sexy aircraft in the US arsenal.

[@ysbrand1114]

🇳🇱❤️🇺🇦

[@chozer1]

ive been hearing alot of planes flying over my apartment here, so i guess that was them

[@epicmetod]

Nice flight setup, i use F-16 HOTAS joystick aswell

[@evgeniychuhay6486]

Thanks everyone, for help

[@butterchuggins5409]

Does the ghost of Ukraine fly that bird??

[@christianlorentz9981]

Best of luck to you and your colleagues Moonfish

[@Megalomaniakaal]

RIP Juice. If only you had survived to see this.

[@illia2492]

Thank You ❤

[@rokasbarasa1]

What a fitting name

[@nealrcn]

Fighting Falcons for real.

[@fahristorm9771]

will Ghost of Kiev use F16 too? lol

[@evilfingers4302]

If only the Ukrainian Air Force would also receive the F-22 Raptor, Russian pilots would crap in the fight suits when a F-22 is flying below or directly behind their MiGs.

[@blackmantis3130]

Training on F-22 would take years. Not something Ukraine has

[@user-pl4pz2xn2c]

No country except the USA can fly the F-22. There is a law even forbidding it.

[@brianholding4357]

🇺🇦🇬🇧

[@Alfeco-dm7uk]

At this rate, war will be over before F16 be deployed

[@7171jay]

@Alfeco For anyone who supports Ukraine and follows this stuff closely it is indeed insanely frustrating. Why training for Ukrainian piolets didn't begin much much earlier is baffling but so are many things regarding support to Ukraine. I hope that soon there is a surge of things coming together that will allow massive Ukrainian control of the battlefield. Keep in mind of the big picture though. In spite of Russia throwing thousands of men and tons of military equipment trying to take over Ukraine they have gotten practically nowhere. Russian gains on the last year are not even close to approaching their initial gains early in the war that they lost to Ukraine counter offensives in Kharkiv and Kherson.

[@lorenzolocatelirossi]

Tak! Excellent

[@lionkingas]

Dont think, just do ! From Top Gun movie quote.

[@rokasbarasa1]

Proud to pay my taxes here

[@Waderlord29]

👏💙💛

[@user-ud4vi5wv1b]

Приветствую вас дорогие друзья союзники благодарю вас за поддержку Украине желаю всем счастья и здоровья успехов победа будет за нами ❤❤❤

[@kingcurry6594]

Well done Denmark. Now what about those Tranche 1 Typhoons the UK is putting into storage for parts?

[@merlingeikie]

❤🎉🇦🇺👍

[@Gregorach]

👌

[@giampaolofasoli1492]

Slava.Ukraine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eroi.Slava!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GlobalPenguin2012]

Slava Ukrayini

[@JDWardBand]

You will Win!!!

[@user-po6je9np4x]

Most people do not know how critical NATO is.

[@toi_techno]

Get them to Ukraine This extended training is costing lives

[@andersbechchristensen9627]

No, the intense extended training saves lives. Otherwise you'll end up sending highly educated ukrainian pilots into a certain death, if they are not capable of handling the falcon and knows its limits. We all owe them a chance of survival, so they may even be able to support the groundforces too on a long term basis. Pilots are not easy to replace -it takes years to educate new pilots. It is not a hamburgerstand where someone new can take over, when you leave just because they had a PS2 at home to play with.

[@yanivwein]

big like

[@donwong5765]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Slava Ukraini !

[@shantimirpeace]

💙💛🌞🔱✨✌

[@GeorgA.1985]

✊🏻🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪💚

[@MCSonixx]

💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛

[@MyScotty7]

So how many will they get in total?

[@pogo1140]

Wouldn't it be better to be training them in the USA where there are fewer airspace restrictions, with a lot of low level supersonic routes, more training ranges, more aircraft to fly against?

[@jakobole]

Logistics......

[@TrinitysTalons]

it would problably seen as the US making advances against russia

[@sergiy4477]

Героям Слава!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@DardaniaLion]

My God, this F16 looks amazing.

[@hoangphuonglamnguyen7468]

😮

[@IIKraftI]

❤❤❤

[@AtriadGamasekav]

Our guarding angels are coming to protect our skies 🫶

[@hyy3657]

Thank for all endeavors to protect our democracy and order.

[@Kondasnaker]

✌️

[@mmarsh1972]

Slava Ukranii!

[@seanclarke4278]

Ukraine !!!!!

[@Andsq]

Дякую за допомогу моїй країні 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@billyccall5774]

Based🤘

[@jesserhernandez4182]

Pilot glances over to S/E direction.....contemplates a quick 3hr fly over to Ruskieland! Hmmn......

[@user-kd3hk5bx7m]

🇺🇦👍🇪🇺💪🏼🇺🇦👏🏼🇪🇺❤️🇺🇦🇪🇺🙏🙏🙏

[@samsym6747]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦☝️💪💪💪