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已退役的F-16战机正从飞机废料场被运往乌克兰，以支持乌克兰日益壮大的欧洲捐赠战机机队。乌克兰目前正在使用这些战机对抗俄罗斯。美国空军向《世界新闻报》证实了这一消息。此前，有照片显示，部分拆卸的F-16战机正在亚利桑那州装载到乌克兰一架An-124运输机上。航班追踪器显示，这架运输机正飞往波兰。
据一位空军发言人称，美国空军部“通过向乌克兰提供已退役且完全无法使用F-16战机的零件，支持欧洲捐赠给乌克兰的F-16战机维护。这些F-16战机已从美国现役部队退役，无法飞行。更重要的是，它们缺少发动机或雷达等关键部件，无法重新组装用于作战用途。”
上周，社交媒体上流传的照片显示，至少有三架经过收缩包装的 F-16 战机（没有机翼、尾翼、发动机和机鼻雷达罩）被装载到亚利桑那州图森国际机场的一架安东诺夫航空公司的 An-124 运输机上，这证明这些 F-16 战机正飞往乌克兰。
虽然美国提供的机身不会增加乌克兰可飞行的F-16战机总数，但在支持乌克兰日益壮大的“蝰蛇”机队方面，它们将发挥显著作用。美国一直以来都没有兴趣直接向乌克兰提供可飞行的F-16战机，但这种情况迟早会改变。
Non-operational F-16s are being pulled from the boneyard and sent to Ukraine to support the growing fleet of European-donated fighters that the country is now using in combat against Russia. This development was confirmed to TWZ by the U.S. Air Force after photos recently emerged showing partially disassembled F-16s being loaded onto a Ukrainian charter An-124 transport aircraft in Arizona. Flight trackers showed the transport flying to Poland.
According to an Air Force spokesperson, the Department of the Air Force “has supported the sustainment of European-donated F-16s to Ukraine by providing disused and completely non-operational F-16s to Ukraine for parts. These F-16s were retired from active U.S. use and are not flyable. Importantly, they lack critical components such as an engine or radar and could not be reconstituted for operational use.”
Evidence that the F-16s were headed to Ukraine came last week, when photos began to circulate on social media showing at least three shrink-wrapped F-16s, minus wings, tails, engines, and radomes, being loaded onto an Antonov Airlines An-124 at Tucson International Airport, Arizona.
While the airframes provided by the United States won’t add to this flyable total, they will nevertheless deliver a significant boost when it comes to supporting Ukraine’s growing Viper fleet. The U.S. has not been interested in directly supplying Ukraine with flyable F-16s, but that could always change at some point.
