Timeline for Why is Poland offering its MIGs to the US instead of waiting for their replacements?
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| Mar 18, 2022 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1504880332788711431 | ||
| Mar 15, 2022 at 8:42 | vote | accept | Alexei | ||
| Mar 10, 2022 at 3:04 | comment | added | Ben | @ErelSegal-Halevi That 1 hour is a significant length of time in a military engagement would be relevant if the planes taking off from Poland and going to the Ukraine were expected to provide an advantage in a single military engagement. I imagine they are intended to be assets used in many engagements, and thus losing an hour or two in the initial delivery makes little difference to their value. Also the negotiating over how (and whether) the transfer will happen is taking days; an hour's physical flight time is not relevant next to the diplomatic processes going on. | |
| Mar 9, 2022 at 13:18 | comment | added | Joe W | @ErelSegal-Halevi That all depends on what is happening and the hour of flight is for the planes to be delivered not for them to get to combat missions. But it seems like this won't happen so it doesn't matter. | |
| Mar 9, 2022 at 12:16 | comment | added | Erel Segal-Halevi | @JoeW Isn't an hour, a lot of time in military terms? An hour of flight gives the enemy more time to respond; you also need more fuel, which means you have less room for ammunition. | |
| Mar 9, 2022 at 10:53 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 8, 2022 at 21:38 | comment | added | WPNSGuy | They're not "giving them to the US". They are just relocating them to another NATO base, Ramstein (USAFE HQ), to facilitate the transfer. I would suspect that Ukranian pilots are being brought to Ramstein, to take possession of the MiGs. Doesn't really matter though...all these locations are within an hour or two flight time. | |
| Mar 8, 2022 at 20:49 | answer | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 8, 2022 at 20:36 | comment | added | o.m. | @JoeW, with that kind of aircraft it is more like one hour flight time. It is all about who hands them over and where they cross the border. | |
| Mar 8, 2022 at 20:29 | history | protected | Philipp♦ | ||
| Mar 8, 2022 at 20:15 | comment | added | Joe W | From what I understand the flight time between Germany and Poland is only a couple of hours and it shouldn't be much longer to get them to Ukraine after. | |
| Mar 8, 2022 at 20:12 | comment | added | o.m. | The flight time is not seriously an issue. Ground preparation takes longer than the extra distance. But Poland might well want to avoid the exposure of having Ukrainian crews fly combat aircraft from a Polish base. | |
| Mar 8, 2022 at 19:58 | history | asked | Alexei | CC BY-SA 4.0 |