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Russia to export tanks to turbulent regions
Published: 14 February, 2012, 22:18
TAGS: Arms, Military, Russia, Prime Time Russia, Anya Fedorova, Peter Oliver, Neil Harvey
Russia is to supply Algeria and Turkmenistan with its latest model of T-90C tanks.
In total, Russia plans to sell 150 tanks at a cost of around $500 million – 30 to Turkmenistan and 120 to Algeria, a Russian military insider told Vedomosti.
The relevant contracts were drawn up in 2009 and 2010, when the Arab World was rocked by protests in Algeria's neighbors Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Among other countries that received Russian tanks were India, Uganda and Kazakhstan.
In 2012, the volume of tanks sold to those countries is expected to grow seven-fold, permitting Russia to overtake China as the world's biggest tank exporter.
In March 2011, the Russian military's chief of staff slammed T-90 tanks as being of too poor quality for his country's army. He said that Russia would be better served spending the same amount of money on three German Leopard tanks for the price of one T-90.
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The Russian army could not buy THREE Leopard tanks for the price of ONE T-90.
The latest T-90AM has the same capabilities of a Leopard tank.
Always support your own manufacturers, work with what you have and improve it, dont buy foreign and let your manufacturing base crumble,
Russia's T-90 flying tank just as their new helicopter gunship and AK-12 weapons systems are state of the art and extremely lethal in what they do.
The only reason Trillions in R & D world-wide are spent on ever more lethal weapons platforms are the evil Zionists pushing for their endless global wars the residual being that recycled and surplus 1990's weapons platforms dumped all over the world are very effective in slaughtering people as well.
All of that R & D isn't being spent on medical break-thru's, energy break-thru's, transportation break-thru's, fuel break-thru's because the evil Zionists are steering the agenda and direction.
The evil Zionists are a plague on earth, the biggest parasite of the US taxpayers and a disease which is treatening the very lives and future of humanity on earth. All of the many global problems which humanity must address collectively cannot be adequately addressed because all the funding, R & D and manufacturing is solely focused on producing ever more lethal weapons platforms.
In this case Russia is pushing back to remain in parity or a superior position which is understandable however the greater problem of the evil Zionists pushing and steering their evil agenda still exists until Russia, China, Arabic people wake-up and focus on isolating, boycotting, deinvesting, sanctioning, constricting and shrinking the impact of the lawless Zionist led Apartheid Israeli state.
As RT knows very well, the Russian ministers comments were not suggesting these tanks are faulty but his comments have been taken out of context. He was simply saying Russia needs better tanks in the future for new threats. Algeria is a neutral country still not yet under zionist control and yet also not under BRIC countrol either. People are waking up to the zionists main method of staying in power: They lead the opposition against themselves in the form of many media fronts like RT, Real news, PressTV etc. These channels report 90% truth but with 10% aditional diss-info on all major issues whilst at the same time promoting other zion front groups. They seem at first impresion to be left wing channels and agreeable with left wing opinion yet close analasis reveals every article in some way reinforces zionist message. Well done Russia, keep the tanks rolling off the production line!