DOHA, Qatar, May 4 (UPI) -- Qatar purchased 24 French-made Rafale fighter jets Monday in a $7 billion deal.
The announcement was made as French president Francois Hollande visited Emir Shiekh Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha, Qatar, and was one of several strategic agreements signed. Qatar becomes the third country this year, after Egypt and India, to purchase the jets, manufactured by France's Dussault Aviation and first introduced in 2001.