The United States has offered Slovakia 12 new military helicopters as compensation for the MiG-29 fighter jets the European country is giving to Ukraine, Slovakia's defense minister said Wednesday.
FILE - A Yugoslav airforce Mig-29 fighter flies over Belgrade, on June 1998, during patrol duty. Slovakia was offered 12 new military helicopters by the United States as compensation for the MiG-29 fighter jets the country decided to give to Ukraine, Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
FILE - A Yugoslav airforce Mig-29 fighter flies over Belgrade, on June 1998, during patrol duty. Slovakia was offered 12 new military helicopters by the United States as compensation for the MiG-29 fighter jets the country decided to give to Ukraine, Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The United States has offered Slovakia 12 new military helicopters as compensation for the MiG-29 fighter jets the European country isUnder the offer, Slovakia would pay $340 million for the Bell AH-1Z attack choppers in a deal worth about $1 billion that also includes 500 AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles and training, Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said.
U.S. foreign military financing would cover the other $660 million, he said. The European Union also would send Slovakia 200 million euros in additional compensation, Nad said.Nad said his country’s armed forces currently don’t have any combat helicopters and that the deal would “significantly increase the defense capability of Slovakia.”
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