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Russia has formally acknowledged plans for the first time deliveries to Syria of the Party of fighter-interceptor MiG-31E, wrote Kommersant.Said head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Alexei Fedorov.The contract was signed in 2007, but has not yet entered into force.Negotiations on the supply continues. Through this transaction in the KLA expects to stabilize the situation in OJSC "Nizhny Novgorod Aircraft Building Plant" Sokol ", which is modernizing machines commissioned by Rosoboronexport. Earlier, Russia categorically denied that there are plans to supply Syria MiG-31, RSK MiG stated that such a contract does not exist. Subsequently, Syria denied these allegations.  Syria was one of the countries that the United States listed as an "axis of evil" - a regime that, according to Washington, sponsor of terrorism. First, President George W. Bush included in the "axis of evil" Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Later, Undersecretary of State John Bolton figured there Cuba, Libya and Syria.According to Fedorov, in 2007, both signed two contracts: one for deliveries to Syria, the party front-line MiG-29M, and the second - on the MiG-31E interceptors. The first is already under way, and on the MiG-31 never entered into force. Terms of the contract assumed that Syria will be delivered eight aircraft. The contract value was estimated at 400-500 million dollars. Since the production of the MiG-31 was halted in 1994, Syria was planned to sell the aircraft from the Air Force Reserve and industry. Modernization of aircraft involved in Sokol. Four fighters are at the plant "Sokol", held in the case of fraud, which has recently been initiated Prosecutor General's Office. The prosecutor's inspection found that they were illegally sold to a certain OOO MetalSnab "for 153 rubles apiece in the real value of not less than 116 million rubles. Thus, according to investigators, the State has suffered 466 million rubles. At the plant argue that these aircraft were bought by the "Falcon." From a letter by the general director of Sokol Alexander Karezin August 7, addressed to Alexei Fedorov, it follows that "four sets of units of the MiG-31, valued at 3,039 million rubles, were laid in 1997 mobrezerv and adopted a "Falcon" for safekeeping "and" under contract with "GlavSnabResurs" N 25/k/54207909 on 12/07/2007, OAO NAZ Sokol has acquired previously in mobrezerve material assets, including including four sets of units of the MiG-31 of $ 3 014 692.49 rubles without VAT. "These sets of units were constantly and are on the territory of JSC NAZ Sokol", "- says in a letter Karezin. | |
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