YEREVAN. – Past daily writes. The Russian Ministry of Defense will receive 98 new Mi-28 helicopters by 2027, which will be armed with S-8 missiles with 80-millimeter caliber. (…).
Those missiles were being purchased by the Soviet, and then the countries—including Armenia—acquiring Russian armaments. And now the same Russia has allocated 9.7 billion rubles to buy the same missiles manufactured in 1991. It is about the existing remnants of the same missiles once manufactured in its own country and supplied to other countries.
This information is noteworthy for Armenia in the sense that at present, the head of the company supplying weapons to Armenia, Davit Galstyan (Patron Davit), and the former Minister of Defense, Davit Tonoyan, are charged [in Armenia] with buying low-quality missiles. Moreover, it is about the above-mentioned missiles. Years ago, by order of the Armenian Ministry of Defense, Davit Galstyan bought and delivered 4,232 such missiles [to Armenia].
And the fact that Russia not only does not sell, but also started buying back those missiles, as their number is quite small, proves in itself that that these missiles are of high quality and within [their] time limit.
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