Russia fulfills helicopters delivery to Afghanistan

Source:Xinhua Published: 2012-6-28 17:23:24

Russia has completed delivery of 21 helicopters to Afghanistan and looked forward to sign contracts on more vehicles shipment, the state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport said Thursday.

"The last three helicopters have been shipped," deputy head of the company Alexander Mikheyev told reporters on the sidelines of the Engineering Technologies-2012 Exhibition in the Moscow region.

These helicopters, made in Russia's Kazan and Moscow, were equipped with arms to carry out special anti-terrorism tasks in Afghanistan, Mikheyev said.

"In effect, the helicopters obtained a new face," he said, adding that Rosoboronexport expected that 10 more helicopters could be ordered by Kabul.

Rosoboronexport shipped Mi-17B5 helicopters to the Afghan armed forces in line with a 900-million-US-dollar contract signed in May 2011 with the US Defense Department. It was the first Russia-US contract on supplying military production to the third country.


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