Algeria to return 15 MiG aircraft to Russia over inferior quality

18/02/2008 13:38 MOSCOW, February 18 (RIA Novosti) - In an unprecedented move, Algeria is to return to Russia 15 MiG aircraft delivered in 2006-07, a Russian business daily said on Monday.

Kommersant quoted a source in the state-owned United Aircraft Building Corporation as saying that last week the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport, the MiG Corporation, and the Algerian Air Force had signed an agreement on the return of the MiGs.

It said the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry had confirmed the deal.

The aircraft are to be returned within the next few months. However, the source said this did not mean that the previous contract has now been torn up, and Russia will offer Algeria more advanced airplanes, MiG-29M2s or MiG-35s.

Rosoboronexport signed a $1.28 billion contract for the delivery of 29 one-seat MiG-29SMT Fulcrum fighters and six two-seat MiG-29UB fighters in March 2006 as part of an $8 billion military-technical cooperation agreement with Algeria.

Deliveries were to be made from March 2007 until February 2008, but Algeria began refusing deliveries from May 2007, demanding that Russia take back the first 15 aircraft it had delivered, citing the "inferior quality" of certain components and units.

In October 2007, Algeria stopped payments on other military contracts pending the return of the MiGs.

Experts suggest Algeria may have opted instead for French Rafale fighters as France builds up its presence in the North African state.

"The Russian [cooperation agreement] breakthrough in Algeria in 2006 provoked a strong backlash in France, especially following the election of President Sarkozy," said Konstantin Makiyenko, of the Center for Strategic and Technological Analysis.


Ovo je jako los marketing za ruse i trebalo bi da rese ovo sto pre jer moze da im ugrozi druge potencijalne poslove.

sta je ovo ovih dana sa njima?!

pa nece valjda punokrvnu verziju MiGica da daju alzircima...

Izgleda da su pokusali da im podvale nesto, pa sad obecavaju MiG-35, M2 itd. da bi se izvadili, nadam se da ce to izgladiti jer je to jako lose po imidz MiG-a, samo im fali da steknu reputaciju firme koja fuserise 

Ko zna sta se desava u senci.

Pa u senci se desava da dugogodisnji prijatelj Rusa Abdul Al Mariz vise nije vrhovni komandant,i da se na njegovo mesto navukao Francuzoljubac Rishad Harman koji posto poto zeli Francuske avione.Jel im trebalo 2 godine da shvate nedostatke?Pa to je glupo....i strasno ruzno od Alziraca.......

Slazem se sa Herrosom, verovatno je politika u pitanju. Glupi su alzirci; jel im nije bilo dosta francuske cizme.
Ma, svako je krojac svoje sudbine.

Pa oni su se odmah bunili nakon prvih isporuka, jos u maju 2007. A secam se i da je sredinom godine bilo informacija da su isporuke zaustavljene zbog toga sto su otkrili da im rusi ne isporucuju nove, vec modernizovane stare avione. navodno, to su bili konzervirani avioni koji su bili u rezervi, ali alzirci nisu prihvatili to objasnjenje. Inace, u istom "dilu" alzirci su narucili i tenkove, Su-30MKA(na njih nisu imali primedbe, prvih 6 je isporuceno krajem decembra), neke artiljerijsko raketne sisteme itd. Sve u svemu veliki posao vredan skoro 8 milijardi dolara, tako da je u interesu Rusije da se ovo resi na obostrano zadovoljstvo. Uglavnom, ovo pitanje je aktuelno izmedju ostalog i zato sto je danas stigao alzirski predsednik u rusiju, verovatno da resi, itmedju ostalih, i ovo pitanje. Rusi ce sada da zaslade dogovor ponudom modernijih varijanti MiG-29, dok alzirci prete prvo da ce otici kod kineza da kupe FC-1, a sada se cuje mogucnost da kupe Rafale. Naravno, ja ne ocekujem da se to i desi, to je obicno blefiranje kako bi se poslovni partner privoleo na saradnju.
Evo jos jedan clanak na ovu temu:
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/algeria_russia_handful_migs

заболе русе рацку за то што алжирци мисле...море нек дају нама те мигове...нећемо да се бунимо...и МиЛ28...

Ako hoces da budes dobar izvoznik sopstvenog naoruzanja ne sme da te boli uvo.I to posebno kad su takve sume u pitanju.