[at0mic22]

Think Ukraine had its own airforce at the beginning, and for 30 years nobody stopped it from modernizing or acquiring new aircrafts.

Besides that, I doubt the US would have ever sold a single F35 to Ukraine just because of revealing radio-emission and reflection patterns to russian air defense, basically drawing F35 useless for future usage against Russia.

[dragonwriter]

If your point is that it is easier to get drones than F-35s, that's not in debate.

That wasn't really the subject of discussion, though.