Belgium agrees to send outgoing F-16s to Ukraine from 2025

Brussels has pledged that Belgium will in fact join Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands in transferring some of its outgoing F-16AM/BM (MLU) Fighting Falcon fighters to Ukraine, though the first of an undisclosed number of jets will not be handed over to Kyiv until 2025. The move was initially announced by Belgian Defence Minister Ludivine Dedonder during an interview with local radio broadcaster, Bel RTL, on October 11 but was further confirmed to reporters by Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De