{"id":9736,"date":"2023-05-29T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T02:07:47","slug":"why-western-fighter-jets-are-critical-to-ukraines-success-and-how-australia-could-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/why-western-fighter-jets-are-critical-to-ukraines-success-and-how-australia-could-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Western fighter jets are critical to Ukraine\u2019s success\u2014and how Australia could help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/matthew-sussex\/\">MATTHEW SUSSEX<\/a>  |  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Joe Biden\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/19\/politics\/biden-g7-f-16-ukraine\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decision<\/a>&nbsp;on 19 May to help facilitate Ukraine\u2019s efforts to procure advanced fourth-generation fighter aircraft was a significant shift in America\u2019s posture. Announced at the G7 summit in Tokyo, the US reversal demonstrated that Biden had overcome his reticence to make such a move, which he had said could send escalatory signals to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv has sought this outcome for a while, but until recently it had been met with Western vacillation. This time, like in the earlier impasse about heavy armour\u2014broken when the UK announced it would send&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.army-technology.com\/news\/uk-completes-challenger-2-deliveries-to-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Challenger 2<\/a>&nbsp;tanks to Ukraine\u2014the British government was again the first mover, promising to begin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/zelenskiy-rishi-sunak-lays-down-a-marker-with-offer-to-train-ukraine-pilots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">training<\/a>&nbsp;Ukrainian pilots to fly a variety of Western military aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But why does Kyiv want Western warplanes so badly? Can it realistically put them to use in the foreseeable future? 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