Transforming Ukraine's Air Power: The Lend-Lease Solution

And even offered the administration before the invasion because I noticed that the Russians were even canceling orders defense orders at the end of the end of. No at the end of. And I wrote a paper and I sent it up through a friend in JSOC without my name on it so they can't use the I Hate Eric Prince card And it basically laid out at that point there was some almost five hundred aircraft set to be retired from US inventory So literally scheduled to be flown from an active squadron to the desert Davis-Monthan Air Force Base the boneyard and parked for eternity written off to zero value to the taxpayers I said make that Lend-Lease package almost like when Roosevelt gave fifty destroyers and some aircraft and a bunch of guns to the Brits in like nineteen forty Lend-Lease And I said make it a combination of Lend-Lease and the Flying Tigers a good use of a private contracted capability because Ukraine needed air power They need a lot more air power So I said perfect There was there was fifty some F-sixteens fifty-five F-fifteens and another forty A-tens Perfect