The Algerian Air Force will be receiving additional Su-30MKA and MiG-29M/M2 fighters from Russia after contracts worth nearly $2 billion were signed. The agreement between the two countries was reached MAKS Moscow Aerospace Exhibition last month by Algeria’s Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Major General Hamid Boumaiza.
Algeria had placed an order of an additional 16 Su-30MKA aircraft, joining the 58 already in service, and another 14 MiG-29M/M2 aircraft. Both purchases are priced at an estimated $1.8 billion, but the value could exceed $2 billion if weapons and equipment are added.
Algeria is looking to replace some of its 36 obsolete MiG-29s it bought from Belarus and Ukraine in the early 2000s and which will be retired around 2020.
