Originally Posted by
MAINJAFAD
It takes years to get a new bit of kit into service from acceptance trials to initial operational capability at the best of times. As far as we know, there may be Ukrainians who can fly and maintain fast jets are doing rapid conversion courses on something like the F-16 at some hidden location right now, but it will still take a lot of time to do it.
I think you would shortcut a lot of that crap in wartime, most engineering type courses I did were about 2 months.