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The US has purchased 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, the Kyiv Post reports.Kazakhstan, a historic ally of Russia, is engaging more with Western
Experts have speculated the US could hand the defunct military hardware over to Ukraine to either recycle parts or use as battlefield decoys to distract Russian attacks
In a strategic move shrouded in speculation, the United States has acquired 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, once a close ally of Russia. These aircraft, relics from the Cold War era, were part of a larger lot of 117 fighter and bomber planes which Kazakhstan had put up for auction due to their obsolete…
In October Kazakhstan offered 117 old Soviet-era combat aircraft for sale by auction and it has now been reported that the US has bought 81 of them through offshore intermediaries.