Algeria’s recent RSK MiG-29SMT order will form part of a more than $4 billion arms package with Moscow, say Russian media reports. Contracts worth up to a combined $2.8 billion for 36 MiG-29SMTs plus 30 options, 28 Sukhoi Su-30s and up to 50 Yakovlev Yak-130 advanced trainer/light attack aircraft should be signed when President Vladimir Putin visits Algeria within the next two months.
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Algeria to buy 40 MiG-29s
(24/01/06)