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MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti) – Venezuela may purchase weaponry from Russia worth $5 billion over the next 10 years, a Russian political analyst said on Wednesday.
During his official visit to Russia on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Russian leadership reaffirmed their mutual drive to strengthen bilateral defense cooperation.
“Regardless of the situation on global arms markets, Venezuela under Hugo Chavez will continue to buy Russian weaponry, and may spend $5 billion or more over the next 10 years on imports of Russian military equipment,” said Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
In 2005-2006, Venezuela bought over 50 combat helicopters, 24 Su-30MK2 fighters, 12 Tor-M1 air defense missile systems and 100,000 AK-103 rifles from Russia. Current contracts are worth about $4 billion, according to various sources.
Pukhov said Russia is the only country supplying a wide range of weaponry to Venezuela.
Russian mob-boss Putin would like to thank Hugo for his contributions, and wishes him well in his attempts to torpedo his own nation. Sadly, it looks as if the US is not currently in the market for an invasion, so Hugo will probably be forced to play cops-and-commies with his neighbors.
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I still like the idea of Mexico operating Flankers for over-water recon operations.
You’d think that something along the lines of a P-3 Orion would make more sense.
Apparently, the Flankers are supposed to guard their offshore oil facilities, but the question is then from who?
Are they expecting Cuba to attack them?
If Putin really wants to make us freak out, he should start sending Cuba and Venezuela Backfire bombers; that would certainly get our attention.