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Colombia will decide within months from which NATO country it will purchase fighter jets, new Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez said, acknowledging that illegal armed groups have taken advantage of peace efforts to strengthen themselves militarily.

Colombia has been looking to replace its fleet of more than 30-year-old Israeli Kfir planes for more than a decade and is considering U.S.-made F-16s, Sweden's Gripen and France's Rafale, Sanchez said in a Sunday interview.

He would not say how much Colombia will spend on the planes or how many it will buy, but the government said in 2023 it had a $3.65 billion budget to purchase some 16 planes.

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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago

Guessing US will be getting scratched from that list immediately.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 points 19 hours ago

Man the University is really fighting back?!

[–] hikuro93@lemmy.ca 18 points 21 hours ago

Anything other than US, specially from Colombia, which was among the first to be publicly humiliated by Trump.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 20 points 22 hours ago

Don’t recommend buying anything from the US. Canada may be cancelling our F-35 orders.

[–] d7sdx@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Is the US still part of NATO?

Still figuring it out

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yes.......no.........yes..........maybe

[–] axh@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

"it's complicated"

[–] d7sdx@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Is this a direct quote of POTUS? Please use quotation marks next time to make it more clear. (:

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

What is Colombia even going to do with these fighter jets?

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

Protect themselves from cheeto.

[–] head_socj@midwest.social 4 points 22 hours ago

Depending on who wins the next presidential election in Colombia: either hunting down drug cartels or invading Venezuela.