32 Mig 29’s for Yemen: 1.3 billion USD
Yemen may buy 32 MiG fighters
Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2006, MoscowYemen may buy 32 MiG-29SMT fighters from Russia for $1.3 billion, a source close to warplane maker MiG said.
The source said the firm had also won a tender to modernise 66 of the planes in India, a contract worth between $850 million and $1 billion.
Russia is one of the world’s biggest arms exporters, and contracts for weapons and planes such as the MiG-29, also known by its Nato classification ‘Fulcrum’, are one of Russia’s top trade earners after oil, gas and minerals.
The firm expects to sign a contract for the planes in the first quarter of 2007, the source said.
So thats 12 Mig’s last year, 32 this year.
Oops that’s 12 MiG’s upgraded and six new delivered in 2005 for a total of 240 million. So at 20 million each lets say, Saleh is planning to spend naother 640 million on….aircraft, fighters no less.
Double oops, they must be 40 million each, thats 1.3 billion.Moscow Times:
Yemen May Buy MiG Jets, Yemen might buy 32 MiG-29SMT fighters from Russia for $1.3 billion, a source close to state-owned warplane maker MiG said Wednesday.
