In the future Vietnam will be one of the largest purchasers of Russian armament 1003115

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Defense News - Vietnam
 

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 5:47 PM

 

In the future Vietnam will be one of the largest purchasers of Russian armament.

 
 
In the future, Vietnam will appear on the list of the principal partners of Russia for the purchase of armaments, announced Wednesday March 9, 2011 Anatoli Issaïkine, general director of the Russian Agency of export of armaments, during a press conference.
     
In the future, Vietnam will appear on the list of the principal partners of Russia for the purchase of armaments, announced Wednesday March 9, 2011 Anatoli Issaïkine, general director of the Russian Agency of export of armaments, during a press conference.
The Vietnamese army currently uses old military equipment of Russian manufacture as BTR-60
     

“I will not enter into the details, but I will say that we maintain with Vietnam very good relationships which were still reinforced these last years. We have good prospects for partnership (…) Soon Vietnam will appear among our principal partners”, it indicated.

A source within the Russian complex militaro-industrialist recently declared to RIA Novosti that Moscow and Hanoi had envisaged a modernization and rearmament program for the Vietnamese army. The experts evaluate the military cooperation between the two countries with more than 10 billion dollars.