How can anyone put $20,000 fighters in the sky, cost more to to upgrade and keep running never mind finding pilot/kamikaze operators to fly them
museum pieces, maybe converted to unmanned drones
Australia tried to give Ukraine some old planes from that same time period I am sure, that were rejected as trash
https://www.rt.com/russia/591680-ukraine...ing-trash/
Looks to be untrue
“Kazakhstan has dismissed reports that it sold dozens of retired Soviet-era warplanes to outside buyers, including the US, to be potentially transferred to Kiev for use in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.“
“Kazakhstan also offered MiG-31 interceptors in the auction. All of the aircraft were listed as being in “unusable condition,” according to the report, and the costs of modernizing them were deemed economically impractical. The warplanes, which were built in the 1970s and 1980s, were retired under the Kazakh military’s modernization program.”
https://www.rt.com/news/596732-us-buys-k...warplanes/
museum pieces, maybe converted to unmanned drones
Australia tried to give Ukraine some old planes from that same time period I am sure, that were rejected as trash
https://www.rt.com/russia/591680-ukraine...ing-trash/
Looks to be untrue
“Kazakhstan has dismissed reports that it sold dozens of retired Soviet-era warplanes to outside buyers, including the US, to be potentially transferred to Kiev for use in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.“
“Kazakhstan also offered MiG-31 interceptors in the auction. All of the aircraft were listed as being in “unusable condition,” according to the report, and the costs of modernizing them were deemed economically impractical. The warplanes, which were built in the 1970s and 1980s, were retired under the Kazakh military’s modernization program.”
https://www.rt.com/news/596732-us-buys-k...warplanes/
