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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Il-76 transports give Chavez power across Latin America

It isn't easy to build reliable heavy military air transport aircraft, or military air lifters.

Currently only the United States and Russia have mastered the job, and the European aircraft industry, led by Germany and France, is trying to join them. But other nations have been forced to take different routes.

Venezuela is buying Ilyushin Il-76s from Russia. They are reliable, old jet-powered military air transports, and Caracas is purchasing them as part of a gigantic $4.4 billion military procurement program that will make its armed forces by far the most powerful in Latin America.

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