Friday, March 30 2018 16:18

ArmInfo. The Izvestia newspaper published some data on the supply of Russian weapons to Armenia and Azerbaijan since the beginning of the 1990s.

"After the division of the Soviet Army's property left in the Trans  Caucasus in 1992, Armenia, at least until mid-1996, received  additional weapons and ammunition. According to one information, it  was a delayed implementation of agreements on the division of  property. On others, new supplies, and bypassing the existing  prohibitions. According to the head of the Defense Committee of the  State Duma, Lev Rokhlin, announced by him in April 1997 at a meeting  of the parliament, the value of the transferred property could reach  a billion dollars ", the author of the article Konstantin Bogdanov  writes.

According to the publication, in Armenia, in particular, 80 T-72  tanks, some BMP-2, up to 120 units of jet and barrel artillery, as  well as about 10,000 small arms were transferred.

<Subsequently, military-technical cooperation with Armenia was of a  point character limited by the difficult financial situation in the  state. The situation moved from a dead center only in 2015, when  Russia agreed to allocate to Armenia the first loan for the purchase  of weapons in the amount of $ 200 million, " noted in the article  with the transfer of the types of Russian weapons acquired by Armenia  in recent years - OTRK Iskander-E, Buk-M1-2 missile system and  electronic warfare system.

The article also says that large deliveries of Russian armament to  Azerbaijan began in 2005, in the framework of which Baku received 162  tanks, over 400 units of other armored vehicles, self-propelled units  2S19 <Msta-S>, 2C31 <Vienna>, MLRS 9K58 <Smerch>, 100 units of  anti-tank complexes <Cornet- E>, as well as 300 portable air defense  missile systems 9K338 <Igla-S>, 24 Mi-35M helicopters and 77  helicopters of the Mi-17 family.

Meanwhile, the other day in the Belarusian media leaked information  that Russia is supplying Azerbaijan with low-quality and out-of-date  weapons. However, Russian military experts hastened to refute this  information.  Armenia, in addition to the $ 200 million Russian  weapons loan, has signed another similar agreement to provide a $ 100  million armory loan. According to Vladimir Drozhzhov, Deputy Director  of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation,  within the ArmHiTech-2018 arms exhibition in Yerevan, the second loan  will begin in 2018.