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Saturday, April 03, 2010

Russia Delivers Missiles to China in Estimated $2 Billion Deal

S-300 PMURussia delivered anti-aircraft missiles to China under a contract that may be valued as high as $2 billion.

OAO Air Defense Concern Almaz-Antei, a state-run weapons manufacturer, sold 15 batteries of S-300 missiles in 2007-2009, Zarina Gurieva, a company spokeswoman, said by phone today.

China, once the largest customer for Russian arms, has bought about 27 S-300 batteries from Russia beginning in the 1990s, the “bare minimum” for its arsenal, Konstantin Makienko, a defense analyst at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, said by phone.

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