It’s a great plane; but at nearly $100 million each (price likely includes some maintenance, training, etc.)
Eight planes?
Maybe the article is wrong.
But as Stalin said, quantity has a quality all it own.
Better old Israeli Kfirs (at $20 million apiece) with modern electronics. Eight would cost only $160 million. Eight hundred million would get you forty planes (if that many still exist).
the Kfirs, like most second or third hand planes,
have probably little remaining airframe time
left and need increasingly more maintenance and spares to keep flying. If these are from a third world seller, I doublt they would be in the greatest condition.