"Why not? We didn’t come in vain, ”he said in an interview with NTV, answering the question of whether they are considering buying these fighters.

Earlier it was reported that Erdogan, during the MAKS-2019 airspace salon, asked the Russian leader Vladimir Putin to buy a fifth-generation Su-57 fighter, to which he received an affirmative answer.

At the end of July, it became known that the Su-57 was put into serial production, and a long-term contract was signed with the Ministry of Defense for the supply of more than 70 aircraft.