Defense denies news of the purchase of the system of defense ‘S400 “Russian
Defense denies news of the purchase of the system of defense ‘S400 “Russian
2019/5/5 15:14
Baghdad-Wayne]
denied the Iraqi Defense Ministry, on Sunday, to be currently working on purchasing system S-400 missile defense from Russia, and indicated that it got so far on 32 aircraft F-16 of the United States of America.
“This information is inaccurate, and for us as a defense ministry we are linked to the command of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and certainly when it is available,” said Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Major Tahseen Ibrahim. We have cash or cash, certainly we will have the ability to go on arming the army. ”
He stressed that: “The information about the purchase of the system S-400 from Russia is inaccurate and incorrect.”
On the purchase of F-16 aircraft from the United States of America, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, that under the strategic agreement with America, “Iraq in 2011, the purchase of 36 F-16 aircraft fell two of them, Is the last installment that has arrived. ”
“Two of these aircraft are used for training and sustainability, and once the pilots have been prepared, they will return to service,” he added.
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