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RUSSIA SHIPPING ARMS WORTH $1 BLN TO AZERBAIJAN - REPORT
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
June 18 2013
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, 18 Smerch 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 are still
locked in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous exclave
populated mostly by ethnic Armenians but located within Azerbaijan's
internationally recognized borders, where a bloody war erupted in the
late 1980s and went on to claim tens of thousands lives.
18 June 2013
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/151980/russia-shipping-arms-worth-1-bln-to-azerbaijan-report.html
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
June 18 2013
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, 18 Smerch 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 are still
locked in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous exclave
populated mostly by ethnic Armenians but located within Azerbaijan's
internationally recognized borders, where a bloody war erupted in the
late 1980s and went on to claim tens of thousands lives.
18 June 2013
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/151980/russia-shipping-arms-worth-1-bln-to-azerbaijan-report.html