Russia will supply Myanmar with anti-aircraft missile and gun systems "Pantsir-S1" unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-10E" and radar stations

22.01.2021 (11:45)

Russia will supply Myanmar with anti-aircraft missile and gun systems 'Pantsir-S1', complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles 'Orlan-10E', as well as radar stations.

The document was signed today in the presence of the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, who is on an official visit to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces senior General Min Aung Hline.

On behalf of the Russian side, the agreement was signed by the Deputy head of the Russian military department, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin.

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Since 2001, Russia and Myanmar have established the entire legal framework for effective and mutually beneficial bilateral military-technical cooperation, which is developing dynamically. Russia has supplied Myanmar with 30 MiG-29 aircraft, 12 Yak-130 combat training aircraft, six Su-30SME, 10 Mi-24 and Mi-35P helicopters, 8 Pechora-2M anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as radar stations, armored vehicles and artillery systems. Maintenance and modernization of equipment is carried out in the joint service technical center established on the territory of Myanmar for the maintenance of all types of equipment, both aviation and armored vehicles.

Military cooperation between the two countries has also been developing intensively over the past five years. Units of the Myanmar armed forces regularly take part in International Army Games and combat training events, including last year they took part in the strategic command and staff exercise 'Kavkaz-2020'.

In addition, in 2018, an intergovernmental agreement was signed on a simplified procedure for calling warships at the ports of Russia and Myanmar.

The command of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is also interested in other modern Russian weapons systems.

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