Posted on 05/14/2009 3:35:22 AM PDT by pobeda1945
MOSCOW, May 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will supply 12 Su-30MK2 Flanker multi-role fighters to Vietnam under a contract worth more than $500 million, a Russian business daily reported on Thursday.
Vedomosti said the contract, which does not include weaponry, was signed between Russian arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport and the Vietnamese Defense Ministry in January, but was not disclosed until now.
Deliveries are to start in 2010.
Experts say the price of missiles, guns, and other equipment could run to an additional several hundred million dollars.
Last month, Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg announced it would build six Kilo class diesel-electric submarines for Vietnam.
Who got the contact for the black pajamas?
“Who got the contact for the black pajamas?”
An organic hemp clothing company in Oregon.
On the other hand, this could part of an encirclement strategy against Taiwan.
Cannot figure out purpose of Taiwan encirclement for Russia - to enrage China?
Or just to keep the Chicoms at bay, sending a reminder to the Sino-Vietnamese war of 1979.
VPAF Sukhoi Su-30MK2 8534
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