Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says Washington had offered to sell the F-16 to Manila but he says the jets are “utterly useless.”
By U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen (U.S. Air Force photo 060919-F-2171A-162) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
“It would be utterly useless to buy it. But I need attack helicopters and small planes for the counterinsurgency,” Duterte was quoted as saying.