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The U.S. Air Force is pulling old and nonoperational F-16s out of its airplane graveyard known as “the boneyard” to send to Ukraine for spare parts.
An Air Force spokesperson confirmed the donated F-16s are coming from the service’s 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The planes will be cannibalized for parts that Ukraine can use to keep their European-donated F-16s flying, but the service stressed the American F-16s have been gutted of key parts and couldn’t be used operationally.
