The #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 bought jets from #Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 for #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
👉🏾 Why Did US Buy Old Soviet Aircraft from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿? https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31780
“Kazakh government was offering 117 Soviet-era fighter and bomber aircraft for sale by auction. This included MiG-31 interceptors, MiG-27 fighter-bombers, MiG-29 fighters, and Su-24 bombers produced in the 1970s and 1980s. The declared value for the sale was one billion tenge ($1.5 million).”
They are old, but it is money well spent!