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    RA ARMED FORCES REPLENISHED BY 10 MORE PLANES

    Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
    Sept 26 2005

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. "RA Armed Forces were replenished
    by 10 more planes, which are completely ready for carrying out
    military tasks. In this respect our fighting capacity increases,"
    Artur Aghabekian, RA Deputy Minister of Defence, declared at the
    briefing held at the Aviation Institute after Armenak Khanpertsian.

    Answering the question, how much they paid for the planes, the Deputy
    Minister said that he has no information about it. And in reply to the
    question, from what country were they bought, Artur Aghabekian only
    mentioned that "these planes are of Russian production." To recap,
    according to the information we have, the planes were to be bought
    from Slovakia.

    In reply to the question about the depreciation of the military
    equipment, the Deputy Defence Minister emphasized that when military
    equipment is depreciated it is immediately written off. According
    to A.Aghabekian, the whole military equipment existing in Armenia or
    bought by it is battle-worthy or is prepared for action by means of
    additional expenditures. "On the whole, in the respect of validity term
    our equipment is in a very good condition," Deputy Defence Minister
    emphasized. According to A.Aghabekian, "the program of development
    of RA Armed Forces envisages constant replenishment of both Armed
    Forces staff and armament. And this is an everyday problem in the
    Armed Forces."
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