Among the world’s leading manufacturers of arms United States unreservedly remains most unreliable. Being the world’s most powerful economy USA can afford betraying old customers pursuing current political preferences of its administration. The most vivid example of the past couple of years is Venezuela. Today this nation has to pay billions for having chosen a wrong supplier of arms.
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With obsolete US made arms and no hope of getting spares / maintenance from the country-supplier Venezuela reasonably fears its aggressive northern neighbour, who does not even hide the desire to assassin foreign leaders and interfere into the internal affairs of different countries because of the purely economic reasons. In these conditions the only reasonable solution is Russian weapons. While European suppliers remain under the US pressure and cannot guarantee stable cooperation in the military sphere, Russia proved that it fulfils its obligations despite any pressure from the US. Tor missiles for Iran is just one of the few most well-known examples.
Venezuela already bought licensed production of Kalashnikov machine guns and a series of the world’s best serially made multi-role fighters Su-30. Already delivered: 10 out of 24 Su-30 fighters, 18 out of 53 helicopters of different models. The next landmark contract is buying diesel submarines. This is nearly certain, as even the officials confirm such negotiations. In particular the head of Rosobornexport Sergey Chemezov said that the two nations are preparing the contracts.
According to some rumours the first contract on five Varshavyanka (project 636) class subs will be initialled before the end of the year. Three submarines will be built in St.Petersburg, two - in the Far East. Most likely by Admiralty Shipyards and Amur Shipyard. Russian officials do not name the manufacturers, saying just that the plants “already started preparation of the production capacities for laying down the submarines".
Project 636 sub belongs to the third generation of submarines designed by CKB MT Rubin (St.Petersburg), however, its latest upgrades bring it very close to the latest 4th generation subs. By the way, Venezuela also considered buying 4th generation Amur-1650 and may come back to this decision. The major advantage of 636 project, according to the experts, is that it is very flexible for modernization. In particular, the subs can carry newest supersonic cruise missiles of Club or BrahMos family with submarine launch. This is a priority direction of modernization ensuring the fighting efficiency surpassing foreign analogies.
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