Philippine Defense Ministry intends to purchase Russian Mi-171 helicopters

The Ministry of National Defense of the Philippines has decided to purchase a batch of Russian helicopters. This is stated in the message of the press service of the country's military department.

The Philippine Air Force intends to purchase 16 new Russian-made Mi-171 helicopters, despite the start of deliveries of the American S-70i Sikorsky multipurpose helicopters. Reportedly, the decision to provide an advance payment of 15% of the total amount of the possible contract was made on October 29.

It is expected that the contract for the Mi-171 will be signed in the near future, no specific date has been announced. It also remains unknown how Manila intends to circumvent the issue of US sanctions over the acquisition of Russian military equipment under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).

At the end of January this year, President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte announced his intention to purchase a batch of Russian helicopters. According to him, in 2019 the Filipino military planned to purchase 16 helicopters from Russia, as well as weapons as part of the modernization program being implemented, but this was prevented by the lack of budget funds.

In March 2020, representatives of the Philippine Ministry of Defense visited an aircraft plant and training center in Russia in connection with the planned purchase of Mi-171 helicopters.

Note that until the 2017 year, the Philippines, along with Brunei, remained the only states in the Asia-Pacific region that never bought Russian weapons. However, with the advent of President Rodrigo Duterte, Manila began to actively show interest in establishing military-technical cooperation with Moscow. As Duterte explained, "when Russia sells weapon, it does not impose any conditions ", unlike the United States.

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[Toucan]

The Philippine Air Force intends to purchase 16 new Russian-made Mi-171 helicopters ...

Hopefully not on credit, or in exchange for palm oil?

[credo]

Quote: Tucan

The Philippine Air Force intends to purchase 16 new Russian-made Mi-171 helicopters ...

Hopefully not on credit, or in exchange for palm oil?

Nothing can be ruled out, especially now, when the virus is roaming the world and many countries are squeezing their budgets due to the need to spend more on health care.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Tucan

Hopefully not on credit, or in exchange for palm oil?

The import of palm oil (total volume per year) to Russia is approximately 1 million tons, which in terms of the population (146 million) is 18 g / day per person. Consumption has not been growing for many years. The cost of a helicopter with a service package is approximately $ 20 million, the total cost of the contract is $ 300 million. And oils from all suppliers are imported - for $ 1 billion. Comparable values? Well, it's hard to put palm oil in ALL Rosoboronexport contracts. From SEA.

[Alf]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Consumption has not been growing for many years.

Yes, yes, it does not grow ... It is simply imported into Russia, "shob bulo" ...

[Lexus]

It is extremely difficult to find flour and confectionery products (glazed) without "special / confectionery fat" (based on the same ...), even in the middle price segment. "The director of the hvirma" lies "on the blue eye." This is, in general, not talking about the rest of the products of the SPMF.

[Borik]

Wow, how the Filipinos dispersed, they decided to buy two types of helicopters. Amers S-70i Sikorsky, we have Mi-171. Is there enough money for everything? Well, amers paid off for everything green, but what about us?

[Errr]

Quote: Tucan

Hopefully not on credit, or in exchange for palm oil?

After carefully reading the beginning of the second paragraph of the article:

The Philippine Air Force intends to purchase 16 new Russian-made Mi-171 helicopters,

we read its ending no less carefully:

the decision to allocate an advance payment of 15% of the total amount of a possible contract was made on October 29.

[Alf]

Quote: Herrr

we read its ending no less carefully:
the decision to allocate an advance payment of 15% of the total amount of a possible contract was made on October 29.

An advance can be in money, but the calculation ...

[Errr]

The Philippines imports more palm oil than Russia.

Source: https://pikabu.ru/story/import_palmyi_perevalil_za_1_mln_tonn_kak_yeti_obemyi_raspredelyayutsya_na_rossiyskom_ryinke_6795218
Comments, as they say, are superfluous.

[Alf]

Quote: Herrr

Comments, as they say, are superfluous.

So what ? Nothing prevents the oil imported to the islands from passing further to the north. And we'll buy ourselves some more ...

[Errr]

Re-export? Why?

[Alf]

Quote: Herrr

Re-export? Why?

And on the one that you can buy one dollar per ton, and in the contract for the turntables, consider that a ton costs 2 bucks. Check out Heller's Catch 22 for a beautifully described chench.

[Chikua]

Incidentally palm oil for frying

[faiver]

Happy for our helicopter manufacturers
Our Mi-8 cannot be killed ...

[d1m1drol]

The Afghan military can refute your statement)) They drop them periodically)

[faiver]

born to climb mountains cannot fly ...

[d1m1drol]

I mean that crooked specialists can kill any unkillable equipment, unfortunately)

[faiver]

it is undeniable

[Temples]

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Quote: d1m1drol

crooked specialists can kill any unkillable equipment

A glass bolt won't last for a fool.

[Alf]

Quote: d1m1drol

The Afghan military can refute your statement)) They drop them periodically)

Did they try to learn to fly?

[Alien From]

Yes, let them buy for health.

[Mountain shooter]

It's just great. A decent batch, of considerable value. Kazan makes them, will be retrofitted and re-equipped ... the engines, however, are also the Klimovsky plant ... I don't see anything bad. On the contrary, despite unfair competition on the part of striped ears, such contracts "break" the ice of the blockade ...

[Asad]

Duterte should leave in January, but how the next president will decide is unknown!

[Errr]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Kazan makes them

Mi-171 Ulan-Ude makes (U-UAZ), not Kazan.

[alexis]

And Kazan too

[Rudkovsky]

The title of the article is loud, but inside there are so many reservations and all sorts of "will-if-planned" and so on, that doubts arise. Rather, it should be perceived as a desire to buy, but so that money would not be paid. And then the evil Americans demand money, they set conditions, and the good Russian vanka will probably rush everything for nothing, in exchange for eternal friendship.

[Thrifty]

Yes, let them buy, just so that it doesn't work out, like the Peruvians, when they quickly brought our turntables to the state of scrap metal! We don't need such anti-advertising!

[16112014nk]

Quote: credo

many countries are squeezing their budgets due to the need to spend more on health care.

The Government of the Russian Federation and the State Duma propose to reduce funding for medicine in the next 3 years by 13%. Probably "at the request of the workers."

[Alf]

Quote: 16112014nk

Probably "at the request of the workers."

By numerous!

[Lexus]

Fucked up with impunity at all.

[16112014nk]

"By the many! " Well, Tereshkova said how her ordinary people asked, even begged to raise the retirement age. And in that and in this case, they probably perceived "with a feeling of deep satisfaction."