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Belgio, le dimensioni ridotte del suo spazio aereo impediscono l'utilizzo dei nuovi caccia F-35?

I media francesi hanno deriso il Belgio per l'acquisto di jet da combattimento che non potrà utilizzare per le esercitazioni, ma le autorità del Paese dichiarano che le esercitazioni si sono sempre fatte, nei loro cieli e all'estero, e lodano le prestazioni dei nuovi F-35

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00:00Is Belgium too small a country to use its new fighter jets?
00:07Belgium has found itself the butt of several jokes online
00:11after various French media outlets reported that the country bought a fleet of F-35 fighter jets
00:17that it won't be able to use because its airspace is too small.
00:21The articles all begin with the same sentiment,
00:23leaning into the friendly French-Belgian rivalry by referring to a blague belge,
00:28or Belgian joke, and noting the €5.6 billion sum that the government shelled out
00:34for 34 of the US-made jets back in 2018.
00:38But there's just one problem, according to the French articles.
00:41Being a small country, it won't have enough room to conduct any training exercises with them,
00:46as doing so would impact civil aviation.
00:49However, the jokes are making a mountain out of a molehill,
00:52according to Belgium's Defence Minister Theo Franken.
00:54Taking to X, he explained that the small size of Belgium's airspace is nothing new,
00:59and that, to make up for it, the country has been carrying out aerial training exercises
01:03both at home and abroad with other jets for years.
01:07As well as planned exercises in Belgium, he said the country is currently in talks
01:11with the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, and other countries
01:14to allow its pilots to train in their airspaces,
01:17and that ultimately that's what the NATO alliance is for.
01:20He also assured that military training exercises would not affect commercial flights,
01:25and that there'd be enough room for both in Belgium's skies,
01:28despite a 700% increase in civil traffic over the country since 1980.
01:33The Cube also reached out to Virginie Floine,
01:36senior captain at the Belgian Air Force,
01:38who confirmed much of what Franken said.
01:40She said that the situation is the same as it has always been
01:43when it comes to Belgium's military jets,
01:46and that, while it's possible to perform some training exercises in the country,
01:50the solution is becoming increasingly international.
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