Russia Leads Multirole Fighter Jet Sales Market

Russia is now the world’s leading exporter of new multirole fighter jets, a Moscow-based research center said Tuesday.

Russia’s Center for the Analysis of the Global Arms Trade said, when calculated in volume terms, Russia was the market-leader for the supply of multirole fighter jets for 2009-2012, according to figures from Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport.

In that four-year period, Russia supplied 224 new jets valued at about $9 billion, the center said in a statement on its website Tuesday.

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