Sunday, July 29, 2007

Iran buys 250 long-distance Sukhoi fighter-bombers, 20 fuel tankers, from Russia???

Iran is buying 250 long-distance Sukhoi fighter-bombers and 20 fuel tankers, from Russia??? According to a DEBKAfile report they are. It starts out like this... Tehran and the Russian Rosoboronexport arms group are about to sign a mammoth arms deal running into tens of billions of dollars for the sale to Tehran of 250 Su-30MKM warplanes and 20 IL-78 MKI fuel tankers. DEBKAfile’s military sources report Iran has stipulated delivery of the first aircraft before the end of 2007... The transaction, Russia’s largest arms deal in 30 years, will endow Iran with a long-range aerial assault capability...
Read the rest HERE

This is the first I read on this sale so I for one question it to hold true. We’ll see...
If more info comes out on it I’ll post it up...
AubreyJ.........

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