Well, howdy there internet people, Let's Bow again. So today we are going to talk about airplanes

and runways and Ukraine and Biden and pundits.

Okay, so if you missed it, Ukraine has repeatedly said they need air power.

They've had their eye on the F-16. The Biden

administration has been reluctant but not defiant when it comes to okaying this. It appears that the Biden administration has

kind of given the nod and if European powers want to provide F-16s to Ukraine, well that's okay.

The F-16 is a U.S. design, therefore European powers need U.S. approval to re-export it. And it looks like that

approval is forthcoming. It's worth noting that officially no European

country has asked for it. But we'll see how this plays out.

Okay, so the next obvious question, if Ukraine gets F-16s, does that mean they're going to get air superiority?

No, no.

Not necessarily.

Will it help? Yeah, it'll help level a playing field. But it doesn't mean

they will have air superiority the way the U.S. typically acquires it.

But it's definitely not going to hurt.

Now that this is becoming more of a realistic possibility

that this occurs, you are probably going to hear from

commentators and there's a couple of different things they're going to talk about.

The first is well it's runways is really what it boils down to and the general idea

is that Ukraine just can't handle the F-16 because the F-16 has a giant hole on the front of it that

likes to suck everything in and the Ukrainian runways are old and they have debris and some of them legitimately are too

short and they would have to be extended. But it's stuff like that.

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