Carambola with Russian combat aircraft that, in principle, would be destined to the Egyptian Air Forces. His final destination has suffered a detour that puts in the hands of the Major Adversary of Morocco one of the Flanker M. Algeria would have received at least one of these fourth generation fighters, at the Ain Beida/Oum El Bouaghi Air Base.
This is collected, referring to a collection for the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (). However, there are many doubts, since the appearance of SU-35 in Algeria would not rule out Iran as the buyer-and final receiver-nor does it mean that the SU-57-the plane model that Algiers had committed to Moscow-is no longer intended for the Algerian Air Force.
The key goes through satellite images that have captured the plane in question, snapshots that carry the signing of the acquaintance Maxo Technologies Company. While there are information that point to a reception in Iran of the Russian hunt, this end has not been able to be verified with open source images.
A 2018 request
It should be remembered, according to the aforementioned information, which Egypt signed a purchase agreement in which a total of 24 of these aircraftin 2018. All SU-35 are mounted on the Yuri Gagarin production plant in Komsomolsk of Amur and have remained stored there since then.
