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Jun. 20, 2014 - 03:45AM
WARSAW — Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnicky has announced the Czech Republic is in talks to sell Russian-built Mil Mi-24 helicopters to the Iraqi Defense Ministry.
“They have shown interest in the helicopters,” Stropnicky told local daily Mlada fronta DNES.
Currently, the Czech Air Force operates 17 Mi-24 helos. Of these, seven aircraft could be sold to the Iraqi government, according to Czech ministry officials.
Should the deal go through, the helos will be modernized and Iraqi pilots will undergo training in the Czech Republic.
The copters are to be used to bolster Iraqi efforts to combat Sunni insurgents in the country’s north, where militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured several cities this month.
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