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Sukhoi Multirole Fighter Deliveries To Begin Next Year

July 21 2010

Algeria

The Kremlin has agreed to deliver 16 Sukhoi Su-30MKA fighter jets to Algeria beginning next year, Russia's Interfax-AVN reports.

The deal calls for deliveries to take place in 2011 and 2012, a Russian official said at the Farnborough air show in the U.K.

Earlier reports indicated that the contract was worth an estimated $1 billion.

This deal was apparently part of an option to a main contract for the delivery of 28 Su-30MKA fighter jets to Algeria. That contract has been...

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