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RUSSIA SHIPPING ARMS WORTH $1 BLN TO AZERBAIJAN - REPORT
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MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is currently delivering up to
$1 billion worth of military equipment to Azerbaijan including tanks,
artillery systems and infantry fighting vehicles, Vedomosti newspaper
reported Tuesday.
The shipments are the result of contracts signed in 2011 and 2012,
unnamed Russian Defense Ministry sources told the business daily,
which also cited photographs posted on milkavkaz.net, a website
analyzing the military situation in the Southern Caucasus, to prove
the deliveries were underway.
The military hardware being supplied to Baku is worth between $700
million and $1 billion and includes 94 T-90S tanks, about 100 BMP-3
infantry fighting vehicles, 18 Msta-S howitzers, 18Smerch rocket
launchers, 18 Vena "floating mortars," and six TOS-1A Solntsepek
multiple launch rocket systems, according to Vedomosti.
Reached by phone, a spokesman for Rosoboronexport, the state-controlled
arms trader, declined to comment on the report.
Large-scale Russian military support for Azerbaijan is likely to
provoke unease in neighboring Armenia, which traditionally enjoys a
close relationship with Moscow. Armenia and Azerbaijan still dispute
the sovereignty of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region bordering
both countries, where a bloody proxy war erupted in the late 1980s
and went on to claim over 30,000 lives.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130618/181729816/Russia-Shipping-Arms-Worth-1-Bln-to-Azerbaijan--Report.html
Israel to Sell Arms to Azerbaijan
Russia to Fulfill Arms Contracts With Venezuela by Yearend Putin Says
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by 2020 - Rogozin
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is currently delivering up to
$1 billion worth of military equipment to Azerbaijan including tanks,
artillery systems and infantry fighting vehicles, Vedomosti newspaper
reported Tuesday.
The shipments are the result of contracts signed in 2011 and 2012,
unnamed Russian Defense Ministry sources told the business daily,
which also cited photographs posted on milkavkaz.net, a website
analyzing the military situation in the Southern Caucasus, to prove
the deliveries were underway.
The military hardware being supplied to Baku is worth between $700
million and $1 billion and includes 94 T-90S tanks, about 100 BMP-3
infantry fighting vehicles, 18 Msta-S howitzers, 18Smerch rocket
launchers, 18 Vena "floating mortars," and six TOS-1A Solntsepek
multiple launch rocket systems, according to Vedomosti.
Reached by phone, a spokesman for Rosoboronexport, the state-controlled
arms trader, declined to comment on the report.
Large-scale Russian military support for Azerbaijan is likely to
provoke unease in neighboring Armenia, which traditionally enjoys a
close relationship with Moscow. Armenia and Azerbaijan still dispute
the sovereignty of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region bordering
both countries, where a bloody proxy war erupted in the late 1980s
and went on to claim over 30,000 lives.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress