{"id":1391395,"date":"2026-05-09T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-to-receive-f-16-jets-from-belgium-when-and-how-much\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:24:26","slug":"ukraine-to-receive-f-16-jets-from-belgium-when-and-how-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-to-receive-f-16-jets-from-belgium-when-and-how-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to Receive F-16 Jets from Belgium: When and How Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Belgian Ministry of Defense plans to deliver all of its F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by 2029. This delivery rate depends on the delivery of F-35 aircraft, which are intended to replace the F-16s.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesoir.be\/745594\/article\/2026-05-08\/la-defense-planifie-la-livraison-de-tous-les-f-16-belges-lukraine-dici-2029\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Soir<\/a> , which notes that Belgium currently has 53 F-16s at its disposal. A corresponding security agreement between Ukraine and Belgium was concluded two years ago during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy&#8217;s visit to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, seven F-16s will be delivered in 2026. Four of them are decommissioned and used for training Ukrainian technicians; another five in 2027, fourteen in 2028, and the remaining twenty-seven aircraft in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>These are tentative dates: the schedule must take into account the Air Force&#8217;s operational needs and depend on <span dir=\"auto\">the delivery of F-35 aircraft, which are intended to replace the F-16s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pryamoy reported that Ukraine still <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-dosi-ne-otrymala-zhodnoho-z-obitsianykh-f-16-vid-belhii-u-briusseli-nazvaly-prychyny\/\">has not received a single F-16 aircraft from Belgium<\/a> due to delays in the delivery of F-35s.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian Ministry of Defense plans to deliver all of its F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by 2029. This delivery rate depends on the delivery of F-35 aircraft, which are intended to replace the F-16s. This was reported by Le Soir , which notes that Belgium currently has 53 F-16s at its disposal. A corresponding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1391387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76874],"class_list":["post-1391395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391396,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391395\/revisions\/1391396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}