[sukhoi-30mki]

The AK-47s & patrol boats aren't the most serious things on American & Colombian minds.He has ordered around 50 Mig-29SMT multi-role fighters,along with the latest Russian AAMs & ASMs(some of which have only been sold to China & India)-it will be the biggest sale order for the Mig-29 after India purchased about 80 in the late 1980s.He has also reportedly booked a large number of Mi-35 attack choppers,which could be deadly against any regional army,like the Colombian army.

[livius]

He has also reportedly booked a large number of Mi-35 attack choppers,which could be deadly against any regional army,like the Colombian army.

Colombia has always been seen by Chavez as our stand-in down there, and it wouldn't surprise me if he was planning an attack on them at some point. Obviously, it's something Uribe is worried about, and rightly so.

[zencat]

He has ordered around 50 Mig-29SMT multi-role fighters,along with the latest Russian AAMs & ASMs(some of which have only been sold to China & India)-it will be the biggest sale order for the Mig-29 after India purchased about 80 in the late 1980s.

All I can tell you is that if I'm a Venezuelan Mig-29 pilot and a USAF or USN attack squadron is coming, I'm headin' to Peru or Ecuador.

[TapTheSource]

"He has ordered around 50 Mig-29SMT multi-role fighters,along with the latest Russian AAMs & ASMs(some of which have only been sold to China & India...He has also reportedly booked a large number of Mi-35 attack choppers,which could be deadly against any regional army,like the Colombian army."

All this courtesy of our "ally" in the War on Terror.