Yasser76
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The UAE has excellent pilots they've developed through the last 20+ years. Some of the videos we saw of their F-16 Block 60 pilots dodging Houthi missiles was super impressive! Their academy is most likely fully loaded with very qualified applicants whom will be trained by the best of the best. There shouldn't be any problems with having qualified Emirate pilots for all those aircraft. The Rafale deal comes with training the pilots who will be flying those jets in France, just like they did with the EAF and Indian pilots.
UAEAF, still relies heavily on foreigners for maintenance and instructor pilots. UAE's showing in Yemen was woeful, they ended up withdrawing.
This is definitely not a curse and far from it. I wouldn't say China is pro-anyone except her own interests and the same goes to Russia but the candidates are not only these but much larger Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, India all could fill in and get share
This is true, but non of these countries can offer (nor would they want to) protection against Iran like US can.