Russia prioritizes the sale of its fighter jets to Africa’s second-most powerful military even as it struggles with low sales and supply to everyone else

The North African country of Algeria has, this year, expanded its military arsenal from Russia, strengthening a defence pact with Moscow centered around the Kremlin’s supply of fighter jets.

Algeria received a batch of Russian Su-34M strike fighters in May.

These supplies are part of a larger military arrangement between Algiers and Moscow.

These supplies are also coming as Russia is said to have recorded an annual low in its home-made fighter jet sales.

Russia struggles with fighter jet sales in the current fiscal year