Die Piloten sind entweder global sourced oder schlecht. Ausnahmen bestätigen dabei die Regel.
Die VAE haben ca. eine Million eigene Staatsbürger. Und aus diesem Fundus wollen die hunderte Jet-Piloten generieren? Plus Transport-Flieger und Hubschrauber?
(Plus ein paar andere Soldaten, um auf eine Personalstärke von 100.000 zu kommen...)
Interessant dazu ein Blick in den Irak der 80er Jahre:
"Additional training was provided by the Soviet Union, with Mirage pilots attending courses in France. Soviet trainers generally passed everyone but assessed less than half of the IQAF students would've been accepted into Soviet fighter units. French training (which the Iraqis considered decidedly superior to Soviet) resulted in an 80% failure rate; nevertheless those who failed were qualified to fly upon return to Iraq.
[29] In all, a third of Iraqi pilots were deemed to meet the standards of Western pilots."
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