KyivOver half Ukraine’s F-16s await repair, a Western source said.
At the current tempo, the source says, Ukraine could run out of usable jets by year-end.
Intercepting Russia’s jet-powered drones and cruise missiles burns missile stocks and adds hours to worn airframes, so pilots ration shots.
Ukraine’s air force declined to give fleet figures, and open-source analysts count 40-50 jets delivered.
Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway have promised about 110 more F-16s.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone leans critical
- reports more than half of Ukraine's F-16s in maintenance limbo with serious bottleneck in critical maintenance system; at current operational rate Ukraine could exhaust remaining aircraft by year-end
Sources: The War Zone