At the south-east fair ...

05/05/14

The Rosoboronexport company, which manages the international sales of the Russian Defense, will show its latest weapon systems at SOFEX -2014, the exhibition that will take place this week in Jordan.

This is what is read on the company website.

Also from Rosoboronexport they say they are very optimistic about the possible sales of new weapons such as sniper rifles and special melee weapons.

We will present - the company writes - the PP-2000 submachine gun, the semi-automatic sniper rifle OSV -96, the compact grenade launcher MGK Boer, the submachine gun PP-19-01 Vityaz, the special 18.5 COP -K rifle and the grenade launcher GM-94 police force.

In addition to weapons for infantry, from Rosoboronexport expect important orders for new Russian helicopters such as the Mi-17 and the Ka-226T, aircraft designed (and presented) for support to special departments against extremists and terrorist groups.

In the 2013 Rosoboronexport has exported Russian weapons and equipment to 60 countries for sales of 13,2 billion dollars, obtaining 1.202 orders. The major importers include India, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Venezuela, Algeria and Malaysia.

Franco Iacch