US Offers Slovakia Viper Choppers to Replace MiG-29 Jets to Be Sent to Kiev - Bratislava
PRAGUE (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd March, 2023) The United States has offered Slovakia 12 Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to replace MiG-29 fighter jets that the country will send to Ukraine, Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Wednesday.
"Twelve new Bell AH-1Z Viper helicopters with equipment, training of pilots and technicians and more than 500 AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles � this is the proposal of the US government," Nad wrote on social media.
Last week, the Slovak government announced that it had decided to deliver its MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine. Earlier in the day, Slovak media reported that Bratislava plans to supply MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in the coming weeks.