Myanmar to buy 20 Russian MiG-29 fighters

[KSRaj]

News.Az - Myanmar to buy 20 Russian MiG-29 fighters for $570 mln

A 400 million-euro ($570 mln) contract has been signed for the delivery of Russian MiG-29 fighters for the Myanmar Air Force.

A 400 million-euro ($570 mln) contract has been signed for the delivery of Russian MiG-29 fighters for the Myanmar Air Force, a source close to Russia's arms export monopoly told a business daily on Wednesday.

Vedomosti quoted the source at Rosoboronexport as saying the Russian bid to supply MiG-29 Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets beat China's offer to sell its latest J-10 and FC-1 fighters.

Myanmar was rearmed with Chinese military aircraft worth some $2 billion in the 1990s, the paper said.

The country bought 12 MiG-29 fighters in 2001, but this contract is the largest since the 2007 unfulfilled contract to supply Algeria with 34 MiG-29 fighters.

In 2008, a contract for the supply of six MiG fighters was signed with Sri Lanka.

Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced last year that Russia would give Lebanon 10 MiG-29 fighter jets for free, Vedomosti said.

Ria Novosti

 

[Patriot]

Hmm BD will be in deep ****.

 

[mijanur]

^^^^
lol bd aint scared of myanmar...we aint never scared of them (or any nation)

 

[Red Dwarf]

Are they buying aircraft to drop bomb on Buddhist monks or to have sky patrolling over Su Kyi's house.

 

[Adios Amigo]

Vedomosti quoted the source at Rosoboronexport as saying the Russian bid to supply MiG-29 Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets beat China's offer to sell its latest J-10 and FC-1 fighters.

The news might be true but i have serious doubts over china offering J10 to myanmar











adios

 

[Luftwaffe]

Its not about beating J-10 offer my guess would be to replace Q-5 and couple of those Mig19s..so to replace her 35-40 fleet of q-5s..

 

[Moscow]

no they choose mig29k the carrier version there is something else to the story official burma sources can confirm
also russia offering BD sukhois if they are interested now bring on the chinese is the slogan for them

 

[Luftwaffe]

good for BD to get sukhois looks good on airfield for display when a nation can't maintain them. I don't think BD is fool enough this time around to buy something that over runs their budget. If BD wanted they could have received more mig 29's instead of those f-7bgs..

 

[KSRaj]

The news might be true but i have serious doubts over china offering J10 to myanmar

And even if the Chinese would offer J10, the price that they would demand would be much more than this. Seems to be a case of "cut-throat" competetion!!

 

[BlackenTheSky]

do myanmar have any enemy country? except its own government

 

[KSRaj]

Maybe just to show the shiney thing to their own folks!

But seriously, they do have a border problem with Bangladesh.

 

[inferno]

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