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<p class="text-body text-muted small">The RDAF maintains around 40 F-16AM/BM Block 15 MLU aircraft that could be utilised by Ukraine. (Terma)</p>
<p>Denmark has commenced the training of Ukrainian pilots on the Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon combat aircraft, the defence minister for the Scandinavian country announced on 25 June.</p>
<p>Speaking on national radio, Minister for Economic Affairs Troels Lund Poulsen said that a decision by the Danish government to bring forward the retirement of the F-16 in Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) service by two years to 2025 had paved the way for Ukrainian crews to be trained on the type.</p>
<p>“[Denmark] has taken the step of starting a training and further education effort for the Ukrainian pilots. We will also consider whether we should make a concrete donation to Ukraine of the Danish F-16 fighters, and how many there should be,” Poulsen was quoted by the AP newswire as saying.</p>
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<p>The RDAF maintains around 40 F-16AM/BM Block 15 aircraft that have been upgraded to the mid-life upgrade (MLU) standard, including some in storage. This MLU provides for an analogous capability to the US Air Force’s Block 50/52 aircraft, and includes the carriage of the latest AIM-9 and AIM-120 air-to-air missiles, as well as the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), and other air-to-surface munitions.</p>
<p>Poulsen’s comments came about a month after US President Joe Biden said in May that he would allow the transfer of F-16s to Ukraine following repeated calls from that country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.</p>
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