Duterte says U.S. offered to sell F-16

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says Washington had offered to sell the F-16 to Manila but he says the jets are “utterly useless.”

US Air National Guard F-16s over Kunsan, ROK
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.

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