First, you should have noticed that the context of the article puts it around two years old. Second, the author says he was basing his information on what intelligence sources reported to him back then. If you want to look back and say this or that sale didn't happen, go right ahead. My interest is in the overall pattern, which overwhelmingly shows that Russia and Red China are aligned against us.
PS If you find the articles I select boring, don't read them.
Their interest is to keep that fact under wraps until it blows up literally) in our faces.