{"id":771728,"date":"2023-11-10T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771728"},"modified":"2023-11-10T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T10:41:50","slug":"poland-not-in-talks-to-send-f-16s-to-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771728","title":{"rendered":"Poland not in talks to send F-16s to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Poland is not in talks to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, a deputy defence minister said Tuesday, a day after the US ruled out delivering fighter jets to the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no official discussions on transferring F-16s at the moment,\u201d Poland\u2019s Wojciech Skurkiewicz told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Poland currently has 48 American-made F-16 warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>Asked earlier whether Poland would take action on sending F-16s to Kyiv, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said \u201cany new air force would be organised and possibly transferred in consultation with NATO countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will act in full coordination,\u201d he added on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, US President Joe Biden said he would not be sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to help it fight Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s leaders have said the F-16s are at the top of their latest weapons wish list.<\/p>\n<p>Western nations this month finally agreed after serious divisions to send Ukraine modern NATO-standard tanks, one of the most powerful weapons in their conventional armies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/poland-not-in-talks-to-send-f-16s-to-ukraine-79813\/?rand=771656\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland is not in talks to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, a deputy defence minister said Tuesday, a day after the US ruled out delivering fighter jets to the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}