Russia offers to sell fighter jets to Turkey
Posted July 18, 2019 7:00 am
MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian official says Moscow is ready to sell fighter jets to Turkey after the United States excluded Turkey from its fighter jet program.
Sergei Chemezov, head of Russia's state-controlled Rostech corporation, said in a statement Thursday that Moscow would be willing to sell its Su-35 fighter jets to Turkey if Ankara "expresses interest."
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration announced on Wednesday that Turkey was being kicked out of the F-35 program because it was buying the Russian S-400 air defense systems. The U.S. said that Russian system would compromise the American fighter jet program.
Turkey began taking delivery of components of the S-400 last week in defiance of U.S. objections.
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