Iraq confirms the purchase of Russian-made helicopters and air defence systems for next summer

By next summer, Russia will supply Iraq with helicopters and anti-aircraft batteries, has indicated, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari. "I think the first deliveries of Russian weapons in Iraq will take place no later than the summer. The main equipment are helicopters and air defense batteries," said the diplomat in Iraq during an interview with the Voice of Russia.

Iraq could buy 30 Russian-made Mi-28 attack helicopters.

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Vietnam and Russia to discuss military cooperation and weapons purchase

Vietnam and Russian defense ministers met in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, to discuss measures to lift bilateral defense ties to a new height. "At the meeting, the two sides discussed issues of implementing the consensus reached by the two countries' leaders, exchange of visits by high-ranking military officials, cooperation in military engineering, human resources training, and weapons purchase."

A Vietnamese army delegation visited some Russian military units and training bases in October 2012.

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