Rogozin: Russia will continue to supply weapons to Azerbaijan (UPDATED)

Russia will continue to supply weapons to Azerbaijan in accordance with the contract as its strategic partner, said  Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is currently on a visit to Baku, ITAR-TASS reported.

In early 2015 it became known that Russia  was completing delivery of  T-90S tanks to Azerbaijan. Earlier the "Rosoboronexport" said that in 2017 the Russian Federation will finish delivery of a large batch of weapons and equipment under agreements concluded in 2010.

According to media reports,  the talk is about contracts for three battalions of T-90S tanks, and three battalions of BMP-3 (about 100 cars), as well as self-propelled artillery, multiple rocket launchers and heavy flamethrower system. In addition, Azerbaijan purchased  repair and recovery engineering vehicles.

With tanks Azerbaijan buys armored recovery vehicles BREM-1M and engineering vehicles barrage IMR-3M based on the T-90, and to the guns and launchers multiple rocket launchers buys  all the machines required for the maintenance and fire control.

The tanks are purchased in the most advanced currently standard equipment, including a new modification of the system of optical-electronic suppression "Shtora", air conditioning and automatic target tracking.

The experts noted that the cost of this package of contracts amounted to $ 1 billion.

According to open sources, in 2010,  was awarded a contract for the supply of Azerbaijan 24 Mi-35M helicopters.-06D--

2016 April 08 (Friday) 10:34:14

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin will arrive in Baku today. Rogozin himself wrote on his Twitter about this.

He said nothing on the purposes of the visit. However, Deputy Prime Minister was in Baku recently - on March 3, together with a delegation of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, which discussed the supply of arms and the payment.

Today the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also arrives in Baku. His visit is connected with the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict and its settlement issues.

It seems that Rogozin's visit is also timed to coincide with this issue and perhaps Medvedev and Rogozin will jointly participate in the talks with Ilham Aliyev. -03D-