Some news outlets and social media platforms have disseminated misleading information about the armed forces receiving K8 jets from the Arab Republic of Egypt.

In this context, the armed forces would like to clarify the following:

The Sudanese army owns squadrons of this type of Chinese-manufactured jets since the start of the millennium, two decades before the current conflict, and has received them from the manufacturing country (the People’s Republic of China) and has no need to turn to any friendly country to get additional jets of this model which is meant for training pilots.

The armed forces would like to warn about the spread of this kind of misleading and unverified information.

Office of the spokesperson of the armed forces