- It is not known, though, if certain agreements have been
already achieved
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- President Putin released a rather interesting statement
yesterday. Making a speech at the meeting of the committee for military
and technical cooperation, Putin said he had discussed an opportunity of
delivering Russian arms to Israel. The question has been discussed with
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Vladimir Putin did not specify, if
there had been certain agreements achieved. Yet, the president emphasized
that the sides had started the new stage of cooperation on the issue.
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- Until recently, Russia has not delivered arms to Israel.
However, Russian and Israeli defense companies have been cooperating with
each other for several years already. The most known example of such cooperation
is the modernization of the Ka-50 helicopter. An Israeli company participated
in the re-equipment of the helicopter's navigation system. They attempted
to sell a batch of modernized helicopters (they were called Ka-50-2 Erdogan)
to Turkey. However, the endeavor was not a success because of political
circumstances that appeared as a result of the USA's pressure on the Turkish
government.
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- It became known yesterday that George W. Bush's administration
had addressed to the US Congress with a request to assign over two billion
dollars for the military help for Israel. Most likely, the Congress will
comply with the request. Congressmen have already agreed to assign $87
billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, and the military help to the American
ally does not seem a hardship at this point. Of course, if the Congress
assigns the claimed sum, the money will be spent on purchasing arms in
the US.
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- In addition to the military and technical cooperation,
Russia and Israel are competitors. Israel has recently taken the second
place on the amount of arms deliveries to India. To crown it all, Russian
Il-76 aircraft is often outfitted with Israeli radar equipment.
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- <http://english.pravda.ru/author/_79.htmld>Vasily
Bubnov
- http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/357/11216_israel.html
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- Comment
- From Dean Doepke
- 11-8-3
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- Jeff - You need to clarify this for everyone because
it is misleading.
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- In this story http://www.rense.com/general44/known.htm
it is stated (roughly) that until recently, Russia had no military ties
to Israel.
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- Truth is, I was LAMBASTED on a website forum a few months
ago on this exact issue while arguing about Israel's lack of VALUE to America
(because I was apparently too "stupid" to not have known that
in 1948 Russia was selling weapons to Israel hand over foot before the
USA took over that role).
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- I checked for myself, and yes, Russia was Israel's main
arms supplier in the beginning of Israel's history.
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- This story should state that Russia and Israel are (possibly)
RENEWING their former arms trading in the near future and America might
be "cut out" of Israel's arms trade.
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- Thanks
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