Russian Roulette.NEED A MIG FIGTER, NAVAL DESTROYER destroyer, class of warship very fast relative to its length, generally equipped with torpedos, antisubmarine equipment, and medium-caliber and antiaircraft guns. The newest destroyers are equipped with guided missiles as their chief offensive weapon. OR STEALTHY stealth·y adj. stealth·i·er, stealth·i·est Marked by or acting with quiet, caution, and secrecy intended to avoid notice. See Synonyms at secret. SUB-marine but also worried about keeping expenses down? Just navigate to www.rusarm.ru, the home page for Rosoboronexport, Russia's federal agency responsible for arms exports. The arms dealer undercuts prices on competitors in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Germany and other countries. For weapon-ungry Latin American countries List of American countries Nations:
"The Russians have been willing to sell any of their arms, short of nuclear weapons, since the end of the Cold War," says Ron O'Rourke, and analyst wit the U.S. Congressional Research Service The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a branch of the Library of Congress that provides objective, nonpartisan research, analysis, and information to assist Congress in its legislative, oversight, and representative functions. U.S. . "Now we're seeing a greater marketing effort, an extension and modification. The Web site does look interesting." Rosoboronexport's site says it "has been expanding contacts with a number of Latin American countries ... First deliveries of the portable air defense [missile] systems have been made to Brazil." The site also says Mi-17 helicopters have been sold to Colombia, Uruguay signed a contact for small arms small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small Arms The first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent. and the company is pursuing arms sales to Ecuador, Argentina and Chile. But it promises it won't use arms sales to get a political, foot in the door. "Russia has rejected the ex-USSR practice of using free-of-charge arms transfers as the instrument of political influence. Nowadays, export policies are based solely on economic efficiency principles," the Web site says. Still, there's a catch. "They're not ready to provide the logistics and repair support," O'Rourke sasys. "That's what's held them back." |
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